| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: world who has, on occasion, fallen beneath himself.
"Hortense Rieppe," began Kitty, "what do you intend to say to my brother
after what he has done about those phosphates?"
"He is always so kind," murmured Hortense.
"Well, you know what it means."
"Means?"
"If you persist in this folly, you'll drop out."
Hortense chose another line of speculation. "I wonder why your brother is
so sure of me?"
"Charley is a set man. And I've never seen him so set on anything as on
you, Hortense Rieppe."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Flying-Machine
The Angel's Tear
The City of Political Distinction
The Party Over There
The Poetess of Reform
The Unchanged Diplomatist
An Invitation
The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky
The Opossum of the Future
The Life-Savers
The Australian Grasshopper
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love;
Why, alas! should bitter pain arise
From the noblest passion that we prove?
Thou, kind soul, bewailest, lov'st him well,
From disgrace his memory's saved by thee;
Lo, his spirit signs from out its cell:
BE A MAN, NOR SEEK TO FOLLOW ME.
1775.
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TRILOGY OF PASSION.
I. TO WERTHER.
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