| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: "My ten toes are: Beauty, Art, Italy, Greece,
Life, Music, Psyche, Color, Motion, Liberty!
Put yourself into a receptive attitude now, and
Beauty will speak to you!"
And while a satellite ran rosy fingers down a lute,
she moved the toe named Beauty to and
fro . . .
A hush fell on the assembled nuts, as Beauty
moved . . .
As Beauty spoke to them . . .
"I see," murmured Hermione to Fothergil Finch,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: those early romances their fresh idyllic charm.
What is interesting to note is that this artistic
freshness and joy in Nature coexisted with acute
intermittent attacks of spiritual lassitude. In
"The Cossacks," the doubts, the mental gropings
of Olenine--whose personality but thinly veils
that of Tolstoy--haunt him betimes even among
the delights of the Caucasian woodland; Serge,
the fatalistic hero of "Conjugal Happiness,"
calmly acquiesces in the inevitableness of "love's
sad satiety " amid the scent of roses and the songs
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: husband proves false to the marriage contract; this punishment
indeed extends no farther than a pecuniary mulct, and what seems
more equitable, the husband is obliged to pay a sum of money to his
wife. When the husband prosecutes his wife's gallant, if he can
produce any proofs of a criminal conversation, he recovers for
damages forty cows, forty horses, and forty suits of clothes, and
the same number of other things. If the gallant be unable to pay
him, he is committed to prison, and continues there during the
husband's pleasure, who, if he sets him at liberty before the whole
fine be paid, obliges him to take an oath that he is going to
procure the rest, that he may be able to make full satisfaction.
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