| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Other children questioned, in their homes across the seas:
Who was little Louis, won't you tell us, mother, please?
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Now that you have spelt your lesson, lay it down and go and play,
Seeking shells and seaweed on the sands of Monterey,
Watching all the mighty whalebones, lying buried by the breeze,
Tiny sandpipers, and the huge Pacific seas.
And remember in your playing, as the sea-fog rolls to you,
Long ere you could read it, how I told you what to do;
And that while you thought of no one, nearly half the world away
Some one thought of Louis on the beach of Monterey!
A Child's Garden of Verses |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: come to support you with fresh evidence. In a sense, it is
even so. Damien has been too much depicted with a
conventional halo and conventional features; so drawn by men
who perhaps had not the eye to remark or the pen to express
the individual; or who perhaps were only blinded and silenced
by generous admiration, such as I partly envy for myself -
such as you, if your soul were enlightened, would envy on
your bended knees. It is the least defect of such a method
of portraiture that it makes the path easy for the devil's
advocate, and leaves for the misuse of the slanderer a
considerable field of truth. For the truth that is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: the night; one solitary light, that of the housekeeper, was
burning in the house.
This silence and this darkness emboldened Boxtel; he got
astride the wall, stopped for an instant, and, after having
ascertained that there was nothing to fear, he put his
ladder from his own garden into that of Cornelius, and
descended.
Then, knowing to an inch where the bulbs which were to
produce the black tulip were planted, he ran towards the
spot, following, however, the gravelled walks in order not
to be betrayed by his footprints, and, on arriving at the
The Black Tulip |
