| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Someone cries in the forest, and someone kills.
We flow to the east, to the white-lined shivering sea;
We reach to the west, where the whirling sun went down;
We close our eyes to music in bright cafees.
We diverge from clamorous streets to streets that are silent.
We loaf where the wind-spilled fountain plays.
And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,
Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,
Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;
Climbing, each, to his little four-square dream
Of love or lust or beauty or death or crime.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: And so, brother, you have come to the city to ex-
change some of your commutation notes for a little
pleasure?
MANLY
Indeed you are mistaken; my errand is not of
amusement, but business; and as I neither drink nor
game, my expenses will be so trivial, I shall have no
occasion to sell my notes.
CHARLOTTE
Then you won't have occasion to do a very good
thing. Why, here was the Vermont General--he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: may be attributed to them by inexperienced sentimen-
talists. I believe that some animals love their masters,
but I doubt very much if their affection is the outcome
of gratitude--a characteristic that is so rare as to be only
occasionally traceable in the seemingly unselfish acts of
man himself.
But finally I was forced to sleep. Tired nature would
be put off no longer. I simply fell asleep, willy nilly, as I
sat looking out to sea. I had been very uncomfortable
since my ducking in the ocean, for though I could see
the sunlight on the water half-way toward the island
Pellucidar |
