| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? ...
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
* * * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep ... tired ... or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one
wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
KI1 6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were
of one measure and one size.
KI1 6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of
the other cherub.
KI1 6:27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they
stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one
touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other
wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
KI1 6:28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: voice, for that of a man of courage, trembled a little. "You know
what's to happen." Her silence, with the face she showed, was
almost a confession--it made him sure. "You know, and you're
afraid to tell me. It's so bad that you're afraid I'll find out."
All this might be true, for she did look as if, unexpectedly to
her, he had crossed some mystic line that she had secretly drawn
round her. Yet she might, after all, not have worried; and the
real climax was that he himself, at all events, needn't. "You'll
never find out."
CHAPTER III
It was all to have made, none the less, as I have said, a date;
|
