| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: to-night? The White Moll, he had said; but what did he want with
the White Moll?
He answered her unspoken question now, almost as though he had read
her thoughts.
"She is very clever," he said quietly. "She must be exceedingly
clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few
years; and - er - I worship at the shrine of cleverness - especially
if it be a woman's. The idea struck me last night that if she and
I should - er - pool our resources, we should not have to complain
of the reward."
"Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?" sniffed Rhoda Gray. "So
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: And all thy moans flew o'er my roof, but I have call'd them down:
Wilt thou O Queen enter my house, tis given thee to enter,
And to return: fear nothing, enter with thy virgin feet.
IV.
The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar:
Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown;
She saw the couches of the dead, & where the fibrous roots
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
A land of sorrows & of tears where never smile was seen.
She wandered in the land of clouds thro' valleys dark, listning
Dolors & lamentations: waiting oft beside the dewy grave
Poems of William Blake |
