| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: at one another and didn't seem to notice it was going on,
which wasn't her usual style; me and Tom had a plenty
to think about without talking; Benny she looked like she
hadn't had much sleep, and whenever she'd lift her head
a little and steal a look towards her father you could
see there was tears in her eyes; and as for the old man,
his things stayed on his plate and got cold without him
knowing they was there, I reckon, for he was thinking and
thinking all the time, and never said a word and never et
a bite.
By and by when it was stillest, that nigger's head
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: either of the good, or of that which is neither good nor evil, for nothing
can be the friend of the bad.
True.
But neither can like be the friend of like, as we were just now saying.
True.
And if so, that which is neither good nor evil can have no friend which is
neither good nor evil.
Clearly not.
Then the good alone is the friend of that only which is neither good nor
evil.
That may be assumed to be certain.
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: The door of heaven and never knew.
IMMORTAL
So soon my body will have gone
Beyond the sound and sight of men,
And tho' it wakes and suffers now,
Its sleep will be unbroken then;
But oh, my frail immortal soul
That will not sleep forevermore,
A leaf borne onward by the blast,
A wave that never finds the shore.
AFTER DEATH
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