| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: But another time he may strike back, and then, Bastin--"
"I am not afraid of him," he answered, "but I do not like
tunnels. Still, perhaps it would be better to accompany you than
to be left in this place alone. Now I will unpack the food."
Yva turned to go.
"I must leave you," she said, "since my father needs my help.
The matter has to do with the Force that he would let loose
tomorrow, and its measurements; also with the preparation of the
robes that we must wear lest it should harm us in its leap."
Something in her eyes told me that she wished me to follow her,
and I did so. Outside the portico where we stood in the desolate,
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Nor sit in learning's bower,
Worn through with the dreary shower.
How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his youthful spring!
O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And blossoms blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: Denman in self-defence with his favourite liquor--a port so
excellent that it could never have ripened in the cellar of the
Carthew Arms, but must have been transported, under cloud of
night, from the neighbouring vaults of the great house. At each
threat of exposure, and in particular whenever I was directly
challenged for an opinion, I made haste to fill the butler's glass,
and by the time we had got to the exchanges, he was in a
condition in which no stamp collector need be seriously feared.
God forbid I should hint that he was drunk; he seemed
incapable of the necessary liveliness; but the man's eyes were
set, and so long as he was suffered to talk without interruption,
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