| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: AVIGNON
Poem: Sonnet On Approaching Italy
I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned,
Italia, my Italia, at thy name:
And when from out the mountain's heart I came
And saw the land for which my life had yearned,
I laughed as one who some great prize had earned:
And musing on the marvel of thy fame
I watched the day, till marked with wounds of flame
The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.
The pine-trees waved as waves a woman's hair,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: an inch.
In order to prove the efficacy of this
apparatus, and inspire the firemen with
confidence in its protection, he showed
them that a finger first enveloped in
asbestos, and then in a double case of wire-
gauze, might be held a long time in the
flame of a spirit-lamp or candle before the
heat became inconvenient. A fireman having
his hand within a double asbestos
glove, and its palm protected by a piece of
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: after the famine invasion, and now was clean forgotten.
The old wagon-maker liked to look over the primitive,
neglected stones which marked the graves of these earlier exiles.
Fully half of the inscriptions mentioned his County Galway--
there were two naming the very parish adjoining his.
The latest date on any stone was of the remoter 'fifties.
They had all been stricken down, here in this strange
land with its bitter winters, while the memory of their
own soft, humid, gentle west-coast air was fresh within them.
Musing upon the clumsy sculpture, with its "R.I.P.," or
"Pray for the Soul of," half to be guessed under the stain
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
