| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: follow her up until he gets her--even so there was no escape for
Hector from the fleet son of Peleus. Whenever he made a set to
get near the Dardanian gates and under the walls, that his people
might help him by showering down weapons from above, Achilles
would gain on him and head him back towards the plain, keeping
himself always on the city side. As a man in a dream who fails to
lay hands upon another whom he is pursuing--the one cannot escape
nor the other overtake--even so neither could Achilles come up
with Hector, nor Hector break away from Achilles; nevertheless he
might even yet have escaped death had not the time come when
Apollo, who thus far had sustained his strength and nerved his
The Iliad |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: Note 11, "HIOPA THE KING." Hiopa was really the name of the
king (chief) of Vaiau; but I could never learn that of the
king of Paea - pronounce to rhyme with the Indian AYAH - and
I gave the name where it was most needed. This note must
appear otiose indeed to readers who have never heard of
either of these two gentlemen; and perhaps there is only one
person in the world capable at once of reading my verses and
spying the inaccuracy. For him, for Mr. Tati Salmon,
hereditary high chief of the Tevas, the note is solely
written: a small attention from a clansman to his chief.
Note 12, "LET THE PIGS BE TAPU." It is impossible to explain
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: the fact is, I've come on a very different matter. It's about my
sister, St. Ives,' and he shook his head menacingly at me.
'You're quite sure?' I persisted. 'It's here, at your service - up
to five hundred pounds, if you like. Well, all right; only
remember where it is, when you do want it.'
'Oh, please let me alone!' cried Ronald: 'I've come to say
something unpleasant; and how on earth can I do it, if you don't
give a fellow a chance? It's about my sister, as I said. You can
see for yourself that it can't be allowed to go on. It's
compromising; it don't lead to anything; and you're not the kind of
man (you must feel it yourself) that I can allow my female
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