| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Your spring and your day are wasted in play,
And your winter and night in disguise.
THE SICK ROSE
O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: on the following day, she felt so low that she called for a priest.
Three neighbours surrounded her when the dominie administered the
Extreme Unction. Afterwards she said that she wished to speak to Fabu.
He arrived in his Sunday clothes, very ill at ease among the funereal
surroundings.
"Forgive me," she said, making an effort to extend her arm, "I
believed it was you who killed him!"
What did such accusations mean? Suspect a man like him of murder! And
Fabu became excited and was about to make trouble.
"Don't you see she is not in her right mind?"
From time to time Felicite spoke to shadows. The women left her and
A Simple Soul |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: such a stupor that he failed at first to hear the sound of voices
and footsteps inside the drawing-room. Willie had come home - and
the Editor was with him.
They burst out on the terrace babbling noisily, and then pulling
themselves together stood still, surprising - and as if themselves
surprised.
CHAPTER VII
They had been feasting a poet from the bush, the latest discovery
of the Editor. Such discoveries were the business, the vocation,
the pride and delight of the only apostle of letters in the
hemisphere, the solitary patron of culture, the Slave of the Lamp -
Within the Tides |
