| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: our fans, and then we blush, and then the gentlemen
jog one another, peep under the fan, and make the
prettiest remarks; and then we giggle and they simper,
and they giggle and we simper, and then the curtain
drops, and then for nuts and oranges, and then we
bow, and it's pray, Ma'am, take it, and pray, Sir, keep
it, and oh! not for the world, Sir; and then the curtain
rises again, and then we blush and giggle and simper
and bow all over again. Oh! the sentimental charms
of a side-box conversation! [All laugh.]
MANLY
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Mark the note that rises, mark the notes that fall,
Mark the time when broken, and the swing of it all.
So when night is come, and you have gone to bed,
All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head.
COME FROM THE DAISIED MEADOWS
HOME from the daisied meadows, where you linger yet -
Home, golden-headed playmate, ere the sun is set;
For the dews are falling fast
And the night has come at last.
Home with you, home and lay your little head at rest,
Safe, safe, my little darling, on your mother's breast.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: the glitter of the lagoon and the pale incandescence of the sky.
Mrs. Travers gazing that way wondered at the absence of Hassim
and Immada. But the girl might have been somewhere within one of
the houses with the ladies of Belarab's stockade. Then suddenly
Mrs. Travers became aware that another bench had been brought out
and was already occupied by five men dressed in gorgeous silks,
and embroidered velvets, round-faced and grave. Their hands
reposed on their knees; but one amongst them clad in a white robe
and with a large nearly black turban on his head leaned forward a
little with his chin in his hand. His cheeks were sunken and his
eyes remained fixed on the ground as if to avoid looking at the
The Rescue |
