| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: still to be true to what small best we can attain to. Help us in
that, our maker, the dispenser of events - Thou, of the vast
designs, in which we blindly labour, suffer us to be so far
constant to ourselves and our beloved.
FOR FRIENDS
FOR our absent loved ones we implore thy loving-kindness. Keep
them in life, keep them in growing honour; and for us, grant that
we remain worthy of their love. For Christ's sake, let not our
beloved blush for us, nor we for them. Grant us but that, and
grant us courage to endure lesser ills unshaken, and to accept
death, loss, and disappointment as it were straws upon the tide of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: limbs and spaces her cross-threads more liberally than does the
second, whose legs are shorter.
But we must not rely too much on this rule, say others. The
Angular Epeira, the Paletinted Epeira and the Cross Spider, all
three more or less short-limbed, rival the Banded Epeira in the
spacing of their lime-snares. The last two even dispose them with
greater intervening distances.
We recognize in another respect that the organization of the animal
does not imply an immutable type of work. Before beginning the
sticky spiral, the Epeirae first spin an auxiliary intended to
strengthen the stays. This spiral, formed of plain, non-glutinous
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: still more against her.
One evening Olympe had gone somewhere or other, and had met
Marguerite, who for once had not spared the foolish creature, so
that she had had to retire in confusion. Olympe returned in a
fury, and Marguerite fainted and had to be carried out. Olympe
related to me what had happened, declared that Marguerite, seeing
her alone, had revenged herself upon her because she was my
mistress, and that I must write and tell her to respect the woman
whom I loved, whether I was present or absent.
I need not tell you that I consented, and that I put into the
letter which I sent to her address the same day, everything
Camille |
