| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: which you call Space, and in the true Space, where I can see things
as they are. And at this moment I can see your Line, or side --
or inside as you are pleased to call it; and I can see also the Men
and Women on the North and South of you, whom I will now enumerate,
describing their order, their size, and the interval between each."
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My body just before I disappeared
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "Jonathan tells me you got married just before Girty came up with you at
Beautiful Spring."
"Yes; it is true. In fact, the whole wonderful story is true, yet I cannot
believe as yet. You look thin and haggard. When we last met you were well."
"That awful time pulled me down. I was an unwilling spectator of all that
horrible massacre, and shall never get over it. I can still see the fiendish
savages running about with the reeking scalps of their own people. I actually
counted the bodies of forty-nine grown Christians and twenty-seven children.
An hour after you left us the church was in ashes, and the next day I saw the
burned bodies. Oh! the sickening horror of the scene! It haunts me! That
monster Jim Girty killed fourteen Christians with his sledge-hammer."
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: What soil the enchanted clusters grew?
That buried passions wake and pass
In beaded drops of fiery dew?
Nay, take the cup of blood-red wine, -
Our hearts can boast a warmer grow,
Filled from a vantage more divine, -
Calmed, but not chilled by winter's snow!
To-night the palest wave we sip
Rich as the priceless draught shall be
That wet the bride of Cana's lip, -
The wedding wine of Galilee!
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
