| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Sit still and content
Under a tree --
We have met fate together
And love and pain,
Why should we fear
The wrath of the rain!
In the End
All that could never be said,
All that could never be done,
Wait for us at last
Somewhere back of the sun;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: you . . ."
"Oh, yes! Thanks. It's a very poor jest. Change from body to
body as travellers used to change horses at post houses. I've
heard of this before. . . ."
"I've no doubt you have," Mills put on a submissive air. "But are
we to hear any more about Azzolati?"
"You shall. Listen. I had heard that he was invited to shoot at
Rambouillet - a quiet party, not one of these great shoots. I hear
a lot of things. I wanted to have a certain information, also
certain hints conveyed to a diplomatic personage who was to be
there, too. A personage that would never let me get in touch with
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: card-leaving, note-writing, enforced civilities to the dull and
elderly, and the smiling endurance of tedious dinners--how
pleasantly such obligations would have filled the emptiness of
her days! She did indeed leave cards in plenty; she kept herself,
with a smiling and valiant persistence, well in the eye of her
world; nor did she suffer any of those gross rebuffs which
sometimes produce a wholesome reaction of contempt in their
victim. Society did not turn away from her, it simply drifted by,
preoccupied and inattentive, letting her feel, to the full
measure of her humbled pride, how completely she had been the
creature of its favour.
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