| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: thank for, you who can look into the souls of men and recognise
the most hidden motives, you who have not only a wonderful brain
but a heart that can feel. You, I hope, will sometimes think
kindly of your grateful
LEO KNIEPP.
Muller kept this letter as one of his most sacred treasures.
The "Kniepp Case" was really, as Bauer had predicted, the last in
Muller's public career. Even the friendliness of the kind old
chief could not keep him in his position after this new display
of the unreliability of his heart. But his quiet tastes allowed
him to live in humble comfort from the income of his little fortune.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: Indians are said to cross the abysses of the Cordilleras in
travelling-cradles made of twisted creepers; the little Spider
passes through space on the invisible and the imponderable.
But to carry the end of the floating thread elsewhither a draught
is needed. At this moment, the draught exists between the door of
my study and the window, both of which are open. It is so slight
that I do not feel its; I only know of it by the smoke from my
pipe, curling softly in that direction. Cold air enters from
without through the door; warm air escapes from the room through
the window. This is the drought that carries the threads with it
and enables the Spiders to embark upon their journey.
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: he returned.
"Has your majesty told me all?" asked he, in a tone we
cannot describe, but which, without appearing to solicit the
royal confidence, contained so much persuasive frankness,
that the king immediately replied:
"Yes, but draw near, monsieur."
"Now then," murmured the officer, "he is coming to it at
last."
"Listen to me."
"I shall not lose a word, sire."
"You will mount on horseback to-morrow, at about half-past
Ten Years Later |
