| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: begin to unbind, ere it leaves its clay forever.
Tom, at last, would not sleep in his room, but lay all
night in the outer verandah, ready to rouse at every call.
"Uncle Tom, what alive have you taken to sleeping anywhere
and everywhere, like a dog, for?" said Miss Ophelia. "I thought
you was one of the orderly sort, that liked to lie in bed in a
Christian way."
"I do, Miss Feely," said Tom, mysteriously. "I do, but now--"
"Well, what now?"
"We mustn't speak loud; Mas'r St. Clare won't hear on 't;
but Miss Feely, you know there must be somebody watchin' for
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: and when it died, Soulsby bought him another, and never
told even ME about it. Now that I call real piety,
if you like."
"So do I," put in Theron, cordially.
"And this question of fraud," pursued his companion,--
"look at it in this light. You heard us sing. Well, now,
I was a singer, of course, but Soulsby hardly knew one
note from another. I taught him to sing, and he went
at it patiently and diligently, like a little man.
And I invented that scheme of finding tunes which the crowd
didn't know, and so couldn't break in on and smother.
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda:
1. HEAVEN and earth trembled at the might and voice of him,
whom,
loved and Holy One, helper of all mankind,
The wise who longed for spoil in fight for kine brought forth
with
power, a Friend, mid waters, at the sacrifice.
2 As these, like friends, have done this work for you, these
prompt
servants of Purumilha Soma-offerer,
Give mental power to him who sings the sacred song, and hearken,
The Rig Veda |
