| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: The result was that when the seventeenth century was fairly
packed away with its lavender in the store chest of the past, a
score or more bands of freebooters were cruising along the
Atlantic seaboard in armed vessels, each with a black flag with
its skull and crossbones at the fore, and with a nondescript crew
made up of the tags and remnants of civilized and semicivilized
humanity (white, black, red, and yellow), known generally as
marooners, swarming upon the decks below.
Nor did these offshoots from the old buccaneer stem confine their
depredations to the American seas alone; the East Indies and the
African coast also witnessed their doings, and suffered from
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: ingenious or pleasant essayist upon it. For I have had what, in
many respects, I boldly call the misfortune, to set my words
sometimes prettily together; not without a foolish vanity in the
poor knack that I had of doing so: until I was heavily punished for
this pride, by finding that many people thought of the words only,
and cared nothing for their meaning. Happily, therefore, the power
of using such pleasant language--if indeed it ever were mine--is
passing away from me; and whatever I am now able to say at all, I
find myself forced to say with great plainness. For my thoughts
have changed also, as my words have; and whereas in earlier life,
what little influence I obtained was due perhaps chiefly to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make somebody poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
And mutual fear brings Peace,
Till the selfish loves increase;
Then Cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.
He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears;
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
