| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: The hardship to the trade is this: their books are purchased in good
faith as perfect, and when resold the buyer is quick to claim damage
if found defective, while the seller has no redress."
Among the careless destroyers of books still at work should be
classed Government officials. Cart-loads of interesting documents,
bound and unbound, have been sold at various times as
waste-paper,[1] when modern red-tape thought them but rubbish.
Some of them have been rescued and resold at high prices,
but some have been lost for ever.
[1] Nell Gwyn's private Housekeeping Book was among them,
containing most curious particulars of what was necessary in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: A happy blossom
Sees you, swift as arrow,
Seek your cradle narrow,
Near my bosom.
Pretty, pretty robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, pretty robin,
Near my bosom.
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: had the form of an E! For a time she walked the room with a hand
pressed upon her heart.
She spent a whole day pondering this change, weighing a letter
of inquiry that should be at once discreet and effectual, weighing
too what action she should take after the answer came. She was
resolved that if this altered spelling was anything more than
a quaint fancy of Fanny's, she would write forthwith to Mr. Snooks.
She had now reached a stage when the minor refinements of behaviour
disappear. Her excuse remained uninvented, but she had the subject
of her letter clear in her mind, even to the hint that "circumstances
in my life have changed very greatly since we talked together." But
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