| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling:
Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,
Though they've 'ad us out by marches an' they've 'ad us back by rail;
But it runs as fast as troop-trains, and we cannot get away;
An' the sick-list to the Colonel makes ten more to-day.
There ain't no fun in women nor there ain't no bite to drink;
It's much too wet for shootin', we can only march and think;
An' at evenin', down the ~nullahs~, we can 'ear the jackals say,
"Get up, you rotten beggars, you've ten more to-day!"
Verses 1889-1896 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: we? They're too absurd. It's Mr. Pemberton's place - every one in
his place. You in yours, your papa in his, me in mine - n'est-ce
pas, cheri? We'll all forget how foolish we've been and have
lovely times."
She continued to talk and to surge vaguely about the little draped
stuffy salon while Pemberton sat with the boy, whose colour
gradually came back; and she mixed up her reasons, hinting that
there were going to be changes, that the other children might
scatter (who knew? - Paula had her ideas) and that then it might be
fancied how much the poor old parent-birds would want the little
nestling. Morgan looked at Pemberton, who wouldn't let him move;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: murmuring:
"Dear old Mac, I love you so, I love you so. Oh, aren't we
happy together, Mac, just us two and no one else? You love
me as much as I love you, don't you, Mac? Oh, if you
shouldn't--if you SHOULDN'T."
But by the middle of the winter Trina's emotions,
oscillating at first from one extreme to another, commenced
to settle themselves to an equilibrium of calmness and
placid quietude. Her household duties began more and more to
absorb her attention, for she was an admirable housekeeper,
keeping the little suite in marvellous good order and
McTeague |
