| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: would a thousand times rather leave in silence, I must inform you
that he will accept for ransom nothing but your hand in marriage,
and that conferred before midnight this very evening!"
"This evening, sir?" said the young lady, struck with horror at
the proposal--"and to such a man!--A man?--a monster, who could
wish to win the daughter by threatening the life of the father
--it is impossible!"
"You say right, my child," answered her father, "it is indeed
impossible; nor have I either the right or the wish to exact such
a sacrifice--It is the course of nature that the old should die
and be forgot, and the young should live and be happy."
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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: DAYADHVAM: I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison
Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
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DAMYATA: The boat responded
Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar
The sea was calm, your heart would have responded 420
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to
the polygamy practised by the Mormons, had flourished beyond expectations.
"And this," added Elder William Hitch, "this is why the jealousy of Congress
has been aroused against us! Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded
the soil of Utah? Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned,
in contempt of all justice? Shall we yield to force? Never!
Driven from Vermont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio,
driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some
independent territory on which to plant our tents. And you,
my brother," continued the Elder, fixing his angry eyes
upon his single auditor, "will you not plant yours there,
Around the World in 80 Days |
