| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: That is at least one definite "false note."
--Let us take the air, in a tobacco trance,
Admire the monuments
Discuss the late events,
Correct our watches by the public clocks.
Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks.
II
Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: splendid;-- and precious gifts were made to the young couple by the prince,
and by the members of his household.
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For five happy years, after that wedding, Tomotada and Aoyagi dwelt
together. But one morning Aoyagi, while talking with her husband about some
household matter, suddenly uttered a great cry of pain, and then became
very white and still. After a few moments she said, in a feeble voice:
"Pardon me for thus rudely crying out -- but the paid was so sudden!... My
dear husband, our union must have been brought about through some
Karma-relation in a former state of existence; and that happy relation, I
think, will bring us again together in more than one life to come. But for
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: the human form. Upon this model I shall begin my task to-morrow,
and in a year expect to tower into the air beyond the malice and
pursuit of man. But I will work only on this condition, that the
art shall not be divulged, and that you shall not require me to
make wings for any but ourselves."
"Why," said Rasselas, "should you envy others so great an
advantage? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good; every
man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness that
he has received."
"If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "I should with
great alacrity teach them to fly. But what would be the security
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