| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: enchantment.
"They eat nothing but the points of needles, you know," says Robert.
"Who?" I ask.
""Goblins," Robert answers.
This revelation leaves me dumb with astonishment and awe... But Robert
suddenly cries out:--
"There is a Harper! -- he is coming to the house!"
And down the hill we run to hear the harper... But what a harper! Not like
the hoary minstrels of the picture-books. A swarthy, sturdy, unkempt
vagabond, with black bold eyes under scowling black brows. More like a
bricklayer than a bard,-- and his garments are corduroy!
Kwaidan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: For Edith and himself: or else he forged,
But that was later, boyish histories
Of battle, bold adventure, dungeon, wreck,
Flights, terrors, sudden rescues, and true love
Crown'd after trial; sketches rude and faint,
But where a passion yet unborn perhaps
Lay hidden as the music of the moon
Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale.
And thus together, save for college-times
Or Temple-eaten terms, a couple, fair
As ever painter painted, poet sang,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: groove of money-making, sport and society to
which their vision had been limited--even his small
contribution to the new state of things seemed to count,
as each brick counts in a well-built wall. He had done
little in public life; he would always be by nature a
contemplative and a dilettante; but he had had high
things to contemplate, great things to delight in; and
one great man's friendship to be his strength and pride.
He had been, in short, what people were beginning
to call "a good citizen." In New York, for many years
past, every new movement, philanthropic, municipal or
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