| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: more days had gone by before Pereira finally trekked off from Marais's
camp, by which time he was quite well and strong again.
We all assembled to see the start, and Marais offered up a prayer for
his nephew's safe journey and our happy meeting again in Natal at the
laager of Retief, which was to be our rendezvous, if that leader were
still in Natal. No one else joined in the prayer. Only Vrouw Prinsloo
audibly added another of her own. It was to the effect that he might
not come back a second time, and that she might never see his face
again, either at Retief's laager or anywhere else, if it would please
the good Lord so to arrange matters.
The Boers tittered; even the Meyer children tittered, for by this time
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Vnknowne; the Poets pen turnes them to shapes,
And giues to aire nothing, a locall habitation,
And a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some ioy,
It comprehends some bringer of that ioy.
Or in the night, imagining some feare,
Howe easie is a bush suppos'd a Beare?
Hip. But all the storie of the night told ouer,
And all their minds transfigur'd so together,
More witnesseth than fancies images,
And growes to something of great constancie;
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: that spell - not if she were ever so false, stupid, or degraded.
She was fate itself. The extent of his misfortune plunged him in
such a stupor that he failed at first to hear the sound of voices
and footsteps inside the drawing-room. Willie had come home - and
the Editor was with him.
They burst out on the terrace babbling noisily, and then pulling
themselves together stood still, surprising - and as if themselves
surprised.
CHAPTER VII
They had been feasting a poet from the bush, the latest discovery
of the Editor. Such discoveries were the business, the vocation,
Within the Tides |
