| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "What's the trouble, sir?"
Jonah put his head into the bonnet and exploded with silent
laughter. I put my head in, too, and swore at him in a whisper.
Then:
"One of the cylinders has been missing since Krainbach," he said.
"I think that's the seat of the trouble. But I've only just- "
"I think it's the carburettor, sir," said I, with a finger on the
float. "There's practically no petrol in it."
I tried the pressure pump, but it was no good. The petrol pipe
was stopped up properly.
"You'll have to have the pipe down, sir. It's the only way."
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: Ben Jonson exclaims,--
"How near to good is what is fair!"
So I would say,--
"How near to good is what is WILD!"
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not
yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed
forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew
fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself
in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw
material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems
of primitive forest trees.
Walking |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: occasion, by a special grace, his mother was permitted to enter the
chapel and witness the ceremony of consecration. A proud day for
her to have a son a mitred abbot; it makes you glad to think they
let her in.
In all these journeyings to and fro, many silent fathers and
brethren fell in our way. Usually they paid no more regard to our
passage than if we had been a cloud; but sometimes the good deacon
had a permission to ask of them, and it was granted by a peculiar
movement of the hands, almost like that of a dog's paws in
swimming, or refused by the usual negative signs, and in either
case with lowered eyelids and a certain air of contrition, as of a
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