| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: Michael.
'Good Lord,' said Morris, addressing heaven and earth, 'good
Lord, I've lost the leather business!'
Michael was once more shaken with laughter.
'Why do you laugh, you fool?' cried his cousin, 'you lose more
than I. You've bungled it worse than even I did. If you had a
spark of feeling, you would be shaking in your boots with
vexation. But I'll tell you one thing--I'll have that eight
hundred pound--I'll have that and go to Swan River--that's mine,
anyway, and your friend must have forged to cash it. Give me the
eight hundred, here, upon this platform, or I go straight to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
* The Choosers of the Slain.
I saw it fall in smoke and fire, the banner of the Bhao;
I heard a voice across the press of one who called in vain: --
"Ho! Anand Rao Nimbalkhur, ride! Get aid of Mulhar Rao!
Go shame his squadrons into fight -- the Bhao -- the Bhao is slain!"
Thereat, as when a sand-bar breaks in clotted spume and spray --
When rain of later autumn sweeps the Jumna water-head,
Before their charge from flank to flank our riven ranks gave way;
Verses 1889-1896 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: Into a shape so small yet so sublime?
Because perfection haunts the hearts of men,
Because thy sacred chalice gathered up
The wine of Petrarch, Shakspere, Shelley--then
Receive these tears of failure as they drop
(Sole vintage of my life), since I am fain
To pour them in a consecrated cup.
TWO BACKGROUNDS.
I.
LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR.
HERE by the ample river's argent sweep,
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