| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: past), but in that desert of the heart, a more barren, a vaster,
a more pitiless desert than that in which Manon had found her
last resting-place.
Marguerite, in fact, as I had found from some friends who knew of
the last circumstances of her life, had not a single real friend
by her bedside during the two months of her long and painful
agony.
Then from Manon and Marguerite my mind wandered to those whom I
knew, and whom I saw singing along the way which led to just such
another death. Poor souls! if it is not right to love them, is it
not well to pity them? You pity the blind man who has never seen
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: Misfortune attend and disaster befall!
May life be to them a succession of hurts;
May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts;
May aches and diseases encamp in their bones,
Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones;
May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest,
And tapeworms securely their bowels digest;
May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair,
And frequent impalement their pleasure impair.
Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse
Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse,
The Devil's Dictionary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: that there is hardly one hymn in which there is not "king ... ..
throne," or some image of homage and flattery. The first hymn
begins--
Ancient of days, Who sittest, throned in glory;
To Thee all knees are bent, all voices pray.
And the second--
Christ, whose glory fills the skies---
And the third--
Lord of all being, throned afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star.
There is a court in Heaven above, to which all good Britons look
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