| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: our
dwelling rich in seed and offspring,
Increasing still with lineal successors.
13 Guard us, O Agni, from the hated demon, guard us from malice
of the
churlish sinner:
Allied with thee may I subdue assailants.
14 May this same fire of mine surpass all others, this fire
where
offspring, vigorous and firm-handed,
Wins, on a thousand paths, what ne'er shall perish.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: one; it consists of a broad piazza with a small house in the middle
of it. The house bears about the same proportion to the piazza
that the crown of a Gainsborough hat does to the brim. And the
cost of the edifice is to the cost of the land as the first price
of a share in a bankrupt railway is to the assessments which follow
the reorganisation. All the best points have been sold, and real
estate on the Ristigouche has been bid up to an absurd figure. In
fact, the river is over-populated and probably over-fished. But we
could hardly find it in our hearts to regret this, for it made the
upward trip a very sociable one. At every lodge that was open,
Favonius (who knows everybody) had a friend, and we must slip
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: against his wrist in rowing; and also passing between the men, as
they alternately sit at the opposite gunwales, to the leaded chocks
or grooves in the extreme pointed prow of the boat, where a wooden
pin or skewer the size of a common quill, prevents it from slipping
out. From the chocks it hangs in a slight festoon over the bows, and
is then passed inside the boat again; and some ten or twenty fathoms
(called box-line) being coiled upon the box in the bows, it continues
its way to the gunwale still a little further aft, and is then
attached to the short-warp--the rope which is immediately connected
with the harpoon; but previous to that connexion, the short-warp goes
through sundry mystifications too tedious to detail.
Moby Dick |
