| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Delicate gold that only fairies see.
When they wake up at dawn in hollow tree-trunks
And come out on the drowsy park, they look
Along the empty paths and say, "Oh, here
They went, and here, and here, and here! Come, see,
Here is their bench, take hands and let us dance
About it in a windy ring and make
A circle round it only they can cross
When they come back again!" . . . Look at the lake --
Do you remember how we watched the swans
That night in late October while they slept?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: To whom Banister owes a thousand pound,
A Merchant Banckrout, whose Father was my master.
What do I care for pity or regard?
He once was wealthy, but he now is fallen,
And this morning have I got him arrested,
At the suit of master Friskiball,
And by this means shall I be sure of coin,
For doing this same good to him unknown:
And in good time, see where the merchant comes.
[Enter Friskiball.]
BAGOT.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: neglect. He seemed to dimly remember that it was HE that found out
about the negro blood; that it was he that told the village; that
the village told Goodson where they got it; that he thus saved
Goodson from marrying the tainted girl; that he had done him this
great service "without knowing the full value of it," in fact
without knowing that he WAS doing it; but that Goodson knew the
value of it, and what a narrow escape he had had, and so went to his
grave grateful to his benefactor and wishing he had a fortune to
leave him. It was all clear and simple, now, and the more he went
over it the more luminous and certain it grew; and at last, when he
nestled to sleep, satisfied and happy, he remembered the whole thing
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
