| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: down to her water-line; and these very eyes which follow this
writing have counted in their time over a hundred sail becalmed, as
if within a magic ring, not very far from the Azores - ships more
or less tall. There were hardly two of them heading exactly the
same way, as if each had meditated breaking out of the enchanted
circle at a different point of the compass. But the spell of the
calm is a strong magic. The following day still saw them scattered
within sight of each other and heading different ways; but when, at
last, the breeze came with the darkling ripple that ran very blue
on a pale sea, they all went in the same direction together. For
this was the homeward-bound fleet from the far-off ends of the
The Mirror of the Sea |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a mysterious way-
The Church can sleep and feed at once.
I saw the 'potamus take wing
Ascending from the damp savannas,
And quiring angels round him sing
The praise of God, in loud hosannas.
Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: known him to lie."
Chapter 3
STARKNESS
A couple of days later, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Maskull and
Nightspore arrived at Starkness Observatory, having covered the seven
miles from Haillar Station on foot. The road, very wild and lonely,
ran for the greater part of the way near the edge of rather lofty
cliffs, within sight of the North Sea. The sun shone, but a brisk
cast wind was blowing and the air was salt and cold. The dark green
waves were flecked with white. Through
out the walk, they were accompanied by the plaintive, beautiful
|
