| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And you have all the fire. The world is here
Today, and it may not be gone tomorrow;
For there are millions, and there may be more,
To make in turn a various estimation
Of its old ills and ashes, and the traps
Of its apparent wrath. Many with ears
That hear not yet, shall have ears given to them,
And then they shall hear strangely. Many with eyes
That are incredulous of the Mystery
Shall yet be driven to feel, and then to read
Where language has an end and is a veil,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: to serve the Queen, God bless her! Some men think he found a
treasure in the orchard, some that he sold himself to the devil
for treasure, and some say that he cheated the abbot out of the
church plate, which was hidden in the old Manor-house at the
Reformation. Rich, however, he is, and God and his conscience,
with the devil perhaps besides, only know how he came by it. He
has sulky ways too--breaking off intercourse with all that are of
the place, as if he had either some strange secret to keep, or
held himself to be made of another clay than we are. I think it
likely my kinsman and he will quarrel, if Mike thrust his
acquaintance on him; and I am sorry that you, my worthy Master
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: watchfulness, Dominic sank on the deck by my side. Within the
monkish cowl his eyes gleamed with a fierce expression which
surprised me. All he said was:
"He has come out here to wash the new paint off his yards, I
suppose."
"What?" I shouted, getting up on my knees. "Is she the
guardacosta?"
The perpetual suggestion of a smile under Dominic's piratical
moustaches seemed to become more accentuated - quite real, grim,
actually almost visible through the wet and uncurled hair. Judging
by that symptom, he must have been in a towering rage. But I could
The Mirror of the Sea |
