| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: the narrow court, back into the brown convent.
That night Sister Josepha tossed more than usual on her hard bed,
and clasped her fingers often in prayer to quell the wickedness
in her heart. Turn where she would, pray as she might, there was
ever a pair of tender, pitying brown eyes, haunting her
persistently. The squeaky organ at vespers intoned the clank of
military accoutrements to her ears, the white bonnets of the
sisters about her faded into mists of curling brown hair.
Briefly, Sister Josepha was in love.
The days went on pretty much as before, save for the one little
heart that beat rebelliously now and then, though it tried so
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: As Rezanov reached her side, she gave him a
grave and friendly smile, but no opportunity to kiss
her hand.
"I have followed your excellency," she said. "I
saw you leave the Juno, and as I am often up at
this hour, and as no one else ever is, my father
ignores the fact that I sometimes ride alone. I have
never come as far as this before, but there is some-
thing I wish to say to you, and there is no oppor-
tunity at home. I asked Santiago to find me one
last night, but he was in a bad temper and would
Rezanov |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: dramatizes that portion of human activity which lies well within
the territory covered by our intellectual consciousness. All this
is concrete Home Office business, so to speak: its meaning was as
clear to Wagner as it is to us. Not so that part of the work
which deals with the destiny of Wotan. And here, as it happened,
Wagner's recollection of what he had been driving at was
completely upset by his discovery, soon after the completion of
The Ring poem, of Schopenhaur's famous treatise "The World as
Will and Representation." So obsessed did he become with this
masterpiece of philosophic art that he declared that it contained
the intellectual demonstration of the conflict of human forces
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