| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: be terrible men. Why did they come?"
"That I can tell you. They came to follow Surtur."
Her face grew troubled. "I don't understand it. One of them at
least must be a bad man, and yet if he is following Surtur - or
Shaping, as he is called here - he can't be really bad."
"What do you know of Surtur?" asked Maskull in astonishment.
Joiwind remained silent for a time, studying his face. His brain
moved restlessly, as though it were being probed from outside. "I
see.... and yet I don't see," she said at last. "It is very
difficult.... Your God is a dreadful Being - bodyless, unfriendly,
invisible. Here we don't worship a God like that. Tell me, has any
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: mother can wind them both round her little finger. Take care
not to affront her with any of your Jacobite jargon."
"Oh, ay, true--she is a Whig, and a friend of old Sall of
Marlborough; thank my stars, I can hoist any colours at a pinch!
I have fought as hard under John Churchill as ever I did under
Dundee or the Duke of Berwick."
"I verily believe you, Craigie," said the lord of the mansion;
"but, Craigie, do you, pray, step down to the cellar, and fetch
us up a bottle of the Burgundy, 1678; it is in the fourth bin
from the right-hand turn. And I say, Craigie, you may fetch up
half a dozen whilst you are about it. Egad, we'll make a night
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: But somewhere, like a homeless child,
My heart is crying in the cold.
A Cry
Oh, there are eyes that he can see,
And hands to make his hands rejoice,
But to my lover I must be
Only a voice.
Oh, there are breasts to bear his head,
And lips whereon his lips can lie,
But I must be till I am dead
Only a cry.
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