| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: The grasshopper chirped idly from the tree,
In sleek and oily coat the water-rat
Breasting the little ripples manfully
Made for the wild-duck's nest, from bough to bough
Hopped the shy finch, and the huge tortoise crept across the
slough.
On the faint wind floated the silky seeds
As the bright scythe swept through the waving grass,
The ouzel-cock splashed circles in the reeds
And flecked with silver whorls the forest's glass,
Which scarce had caught again its imagery
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a couple of others and stuck in his pocket. I turned as we got to a
bend in the road, and he was looking curiously after us.
It was not until we had climbed the hill and turned onto the road
to the Carter place that I realized where we were going. Although
we approached it from another direction, I knew the farm-house at
once. It was the one where Alison West and I had breakfasted
nine days before. With the new restraint between us, I did not tell
McKnight. I wondered afterward if he had suspected it. I saw him
looking hard at the gate-post which had figured in one of our
mysteries, but he asked no questions. Afterward he grew almost
taciturn, for him, and let me do most of the talking.
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: and for the time Adam thought no more of Diana's Grove or of what
mysteries it had contained--or might still contain.
The guests were crowding in, and special places were marked for
important people. Adam, seeing so many persons of varied degree,
looked round for Lady Arabella, but could not locate her. It was
only when he saw the old-fashioned travelling carriage approach and
heard the sound of cheering which went with it, that he realised
that Edgar Caswall had arrived. Then, on looking more closely, he
saw that Lady Arabella, dressed as he had seen her last, was seated
beside him. When the carriage drew up at the great flight of steps,
the host jumped down and gave her his hand.
Lair of the White Worm |
