| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 4 For then the net of Law, Dyaus, and the wide expanse, Earth,
Worship, and Devotion meet for highest praise,
Varuna, Indra, Mitra were of one accord, and Savitar and Bhaga,
Lords
of holy might.
5 Onward, with ever-roaming Rudra, speed the floods: over Aramati
the
Mighty have they run.
With them Parijman, moving round his vast domain, loud bellowing,
bedews all things that are within.
6 Straightway the Rudras, Maruts visiting all men, Falcons
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: box expertly, tore away the wrappings, and disclosed a
gleaming leather-bound set of Balzac, and beneath that,
incongruously enough, Mark Twain.
"Why!" exclaimed Fanny, sitting down on the floor rather
heavily. Then her eye fell upon a card tossed aside in the
hurry of unpacking. She picked it up, read it hastily.
"Merry Christmas to the best daughter in the world. From
her Mother."
Mrs. Brandeis had taken off her wraps and was standing over
the sitting-room register, rubbing her numbed hands and
smiling a little.
Fanny Herself |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: considerations, at one picnic, memorably dull, and after I had
exhausted every other art of pleasing, I gave, in desperation, my
one song. From that hour my doom was gone forth. Either we
had a chronic passenger (though I could never detect him), or
the very wood and iron of the steamer must have retained the
tradition. At every successive picnic word went round that Mr.
Dodd was a singer; that Mr. Dodd sang _Just before the
Battle_, and finally that now was the time when Mr. Dodd
sang _Just before the Battle;_ so that the thing became a
fixture like the dropping of the dummy axe, and you are to
conceive me, Sunday after Sunday, piping up my lamentable
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