| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: fully conscious of the changed present--this is to behold a
miracle in the flesh.
"Where have you been, these two years?" said Athenais, as
they walked together through the garden of lilies where they
had so often played.
"In a land of tiresome dreams," answered Hermas; "but you
have wakened me, and I am never going back again."
It was not to be supposed that the sudden disappearance of
Hermas from among his former associates could long remain
unnoticed. At first it was a mystery. There was a fear, for two
or three days, that he might be lost. Some of his more intimate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
AFTER the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and place and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: godson, or speak his name within a day's march of Mistress
Salterne's, look to it, if I do not--"
What was to be done in default was not spoken; for down went poor
old Vindex on his knees:--
"Oh, Sir Richard! Excellentissime, immo praecelsissime Domine et
Senator, I promise! O sir, Miles et Eques of the Garter, Bath, and
Golden Fleece, consider your dignities, and my old age--and my
great family--nine children--oh, Sir Richard, and eight of them
girls!--Do eagles war with mice? says the ancient!"
"Thy large family, eh? How old is that fat-witted son of thine?"
"Sixteen, Sir Richard; but that is not his fault, indeed!"
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