| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music
that cleaveth the stars like a wail of
desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of
night.
The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled
hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical ser-
pents the poppies of lips that are opiate-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: by showing that formerly wheat grew very well without the aid of man.
I cannot leave this splendid model of a pastor without giving here one
of the acts of his life, which proves with what fervour he imitated
the saints in the division of their goods and mantles, which they gave
formerly to the poor and the passers-by. One day, returning from
Tours, where he had been paying his respects to the official, mounted
on his mule, he was nearing Azay. On the way, just out side Ballan, he
met a pretty girl on foot, and was grieved to see a woman travelling
like a dog; the more so as she was visibly fatigued, and could
scarcely raise one foot before the other. He whistled to her softly,
and the pretty wench turned round and stopped. The good priest, who
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: a slab among the snow, and caught him by the horns, and
forced his head back, and drove the keen sword through his
throat.
Then he turned, and went back limping and weary, feeling his
way down by the clue of thread, till he came to the mouth of
that doleful place and saw waiting for him, whom but Ariadne!
And he whispered 'It is done!' and showed her the sword; and
she laid her finger on her lips, and led him to the prison,
and opened the doors, and set all the prisoners free, while
the guards lay sleeping heavily; for she had silenced them
with wine.
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