| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: so thrilling a hint of their terrible condition that his
audience gasped with sympathy while experiencing
no qualms in their own more fortunate stomachs.
He led their disarmed understandings as far
down the vale of tears as he deemed wise, then per-
mitted himself a magnificent burst of spontaneity.
"I must tell you the object of my mission to
California, my kind friends!" he cried, "although I
beg you will not betray me to the other powers until
I think it wise to speak myself. But I must have
your sympathy and advice. It has long been my
Rezanov |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: nozzle - like stoppers that were connected by a thin metal rod with a
catch halfway down the side of the bottle. They were labelled, but
the labels were yellow with age and the writing was nearly
undecipherable. Maskull carried the filled bottles with him to the
table in front of the window, in order to get better light.
Nightspore moved away to make room for him.
He now made out on the larger bottle the words "Solar Back Rays"; and
on the other one, after some doubt, he thought that he could
distinguish something like "Arcturian Back Rays."
He looked up, to stare curiously at his friend. "Have you been here
before, Nightspore?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: The Father and the Paraclete.
. . . . .
The sable presbyters approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching piaculative pence.
Under the penitential gates
Sustained by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
Along the garden-wall the bees
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