| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: in chains, upon the caravel _Santa, Marta_, I cry to them for
justice, it is because I do not fear justice!''
He ceased to speak, then presently, ``I would that all
might see the light that I see over the future!--Thou seest
it, Juan Lepe.''
``Aye, I see light over the future.''
By littles the storm fell. Ere dawn we could say, ``We
shall outlive it!'' He slept for an hour then waked. ``I
was dreaming of the Holy Land--but do you know, Juan
Lepe, it was seated here in the lands we found!''
``Seated here and everywhere,'' I said. ``As soon as we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri: Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.
And I, who stood intent upon beholding,
Saw people mud-besprent in that lagoon,
All of them naked and with angry look.
They smote each other not alone with hands,
But with the head and with the breast and feet,
Tearing each other piecemeal with their teeth.
Said the good Master: "Son, thou now beholdest
The souls of those whom anger overcame;
And likewise I would have thee know for certain
Beneath the water people are who sigh
The Divine Comedy (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: could well understand the story of the Water Kelpie, that demon
of the streams, who is fabled to keep wailing and roaring at the
ford until the coming of the doomed traveller. Alan I saw
believed it, or half believed it; and when the cry of the river
rose more than usually sharp, I was little surprised (though, of
course, I would still be shocked) to see him cross himself in the
manner of the Catholics.
During all these horrid wanderings we had no familiarity,
scarcely even that of speech. The truth is that I was sickening
for my grave, which is my best excuse. But besides that I was of
an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offence,
Kidnapped |
