| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: you that Michaelis is altogether clear of this - "
The patroness of the ex-convict received this assurance
indignantly.
"Why? Were your people stupid enough to connect him with - "
"Not stupid," interrupted the Assistant Commissioner, contradicting
deferentially. "Clever enough - quite clever enough for that."
A silence fell. The man at the foot of the couch had stopped
speaking to the lady, and looked on with a faint smile.
"I don't know whether you ever met before," said the great lady.
Mr Vladimir and the Assistant Commissioner, introduced,
acknowledged each other's existence with punctilious and guarded
The Secret Agent |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: Honor thy father and thy mother, I behold a different man, adorned and
clothed with the majesty and glory of God. The commandment (I say) is
the chain of gold about his neck, yea, the crown upon his head which
shows to me how and why one must honor this flesh and blood.
Thus, and much more even, you must honor Baptism and esteem it
glorious on account of the Word, since He Himself has honored it both
by words and deeds; moreover, confirmed it with miracles from heaven.
For do you think it was a jest that, when Christ was baptized, the
heavens were opened and the Holy Ghost descended visibly, and
everything was divine glory and majesty?
Therefore I exhort again that these two the water and the Word, by no
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: "But suppose I wait for you outside?" I asked, as I stepped through the
doorway.
"In that case," said Sylvie, "I think the potato would be quite
justified in asking your weight. I can quite imagine a really superior
kidney-potato declining to argue with any one under fifteen stone!"
With a great effort I recovered the thread of my thoughts.
"We lapse very quickly into nonsense!" I said.
CHAPTER 22.
CROSSING THE LINE.
"Let us lapse back again," said Lady Muriel. "Take another cup of tea?
I hope that's sound common sense?"
Sylvie and Bruno |
