| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: lordship's image, and this want of harmony sometimes vexed her
more than she thought reasonable. When he was absent it was,
of course, less striking; then he seemed to her a sufficiently
graceful combination of high responsibilities and amiable qualities.
But when he sat there within sight, laughing and talking with his
customary good humor and simplicity, she measured it more accurately,
and she felt acutely that if Lord Lambeth's position was heroic,
there was but little of the hero in the young man himself.
Then her imagination wandered away from him--very far away; for it was
an incontestable fact that at such moments he seemed distinctly dull.
I am afraid that while Bessie's imagination was thus invidiously
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: secret of the trick, is shown by the fact that
after trial by ordeal had been abolished the
secret of their methods was published by
Albert, Count of Bollstadt, usually called
Albertus Magnus but sometimes Albertus
Teutonicus, a man distinguished by the range of
his inquiries and his efforts for the spread of
knowledge.
These secrets will be fully explained in the
section of this history devoted to the Arcana
of the Fire-Eaters (Chapter Six).
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: daughter, the youngest of her children. With her I was
reared, and she honoured me little less than her own. But
when we both came to the time of our desire, to the flower
of age, thereupon they sent her to Same, and got a great
bride-price; but my lady clad me in a mantle and a doublet,
raiment very fair, and gave me sandals for my feet and sent
me forth to the field, and right dear at heart she held me.
But of these things now at last am I lacking; yet the
blessed gods prosper the work of mine own hands, whereat I
abide. Of this my substance I have eaten and drunken and
given to reverend strangers. But from my lady I may hear
The Odyssey |
