| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: mean? Was Lord Mackworth his secret friend, after all, as
Gascoyne had more than once asserted? So Myles stood silent,
thinking many things.
Meantime the other lay back upon the cylindrical bolsters,
looking thoughtfully at him. "How old art thou?" said he at last.
"Seventeen last April," answered Myles.
"Then thou art old enough to have some of the thoughts of a man,
and to lay aside those of a boy. Haply thou hast had foolish
things in thy head this short time past; it is time that thou put
them away. Harkee, sirrah! the Lady Alice is a great heiress in
her own right, and mayst command the best alliance in England--an
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. It looked
like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing
beautiful which it did not resemble. The trees upon the bank
were giant garden plants; he noted a definite order in their
arrangement, inhaled the fragrance of their blooms. A
strange roseate light shone through the spaces among their
trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of
AEolian harps. He had not wish to perfect his escape -- he
was content to remain in that enchanting spot until retaken.
A whiz and a rattle of grapeshot among the branches high
above his head roused him from his dream. The baffled
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is
no active danger of a change in her. If this change should come,
it would be necessary to take steps! We both know what those steps
would have to be, though we do not mention our thoughts to each other.
We should neither of us shrink from the task, awful though it be
to contemplate. "Euthanasia" is an excellent and a comforting word!
I am grateful to whoever invented it.
It is only about 24 hours' sail from the Dardanelles to here,
at the rate the Czarina Catherine has come from London.
She should therefore arrive some time in the morning, but as she
cannot possibly get in before noon, we are all about to retire early.
Dracula |
