| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: speaking in the Orofenan tongue:
"What do you, slaves?"
No one seemed able to answer, they were too horror-stricken at
this sudden vision of their fabled god, whose fierce features of
wood had become flesh; they only turned to fly. He waved his thin
hand and they came to a standstill, like animals which have
reached the end of their tether and are checked by the chains
that bind them. There they stood in all sorts of postures,
immovable and looking extremely ridiculous in their paint and
feathers, with dread unutterable stamped upon their evil faces.
The Sleeper spoke again:
When the World Shook |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: sight of God, the confusions and mistakes of that one sincere brave
man, than the second-hand and cowardly correctness of all the
thousand.
As for the "triumphs of science," let us honour, with astonishment
and awe, the genius of those who invented them; but let us remember
that the things themselves are as a gun or a sword, with which we
can kill our enemy, but with which also our enemy can kill us. Like
all outward and material things, they are equally fit for good and
for evil. In England here--they have been as yet, as far as I can
see, nothing but blessings: but I have my very serious doubts
whether they are likely to be blessings to the whole human race, for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The envious close of time is narrowing; --
So seize the day, -- or ever it be past, --
And let the morrow come for what it will.
Reuben Bright
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
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