| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Paul would never forgive her--he'd never forgive her!
Sometimes she almost thought Paul really loved her . . .
She saw him look reproachfully at her coffin.
And then she closed her eyes and walked again
Those nightmare streets that she had walked so often:
Under an arc-lamp swinging in the wind
She stood, and stared in through a drug-store window,
Watching a clerk wrap up a little pill-box.
But it was late. No customers were there,--
Pitiless eyes would freeze her secret in her!
And then--what poison would she dare to ask for?
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: Explanatory notes.
Seven and Ten. This line describes the year when these events
shall happen. Seven and ten makes seventeen, which I explain
seventeen hundred, and this number added to nine, makes the year
we are now in; for it must be understood of the natural year,
which begins the first of January.
Tamys Rivere twys, etc. The River Thames, frozen twice in one
year, so as men to walk on it, is a very signal accident, which
perhaps hath not fallen out for several hundred years before, and
is the reason why some astrologers have thought that this
prophecy could never be fulfilled, because they imagine such a
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: He is averse to ascribing a capacity of attraction to space, or to
any hypothetical medium supposed to fill space. He therefore
inclines, but still with caution, to the opinion that the action of
a magnet upon bismuth is a true and absolute repulsion, and not
merely the result of differential attraction. And then he clearly
states a theoretic view sufficient to account for the phenomena.
'Theoretically,' he says, 'an explanation of the movements of the
diamagnetic bodies, and all the dynamic phenomena consequent upon
the action of magnets upon them, might be offered in the supposition
that magnetic induction caused in them a contrary state to that
which it produced in ordinary matter.' That is to say, while in
|
