| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: reason, like a balance-wheel, only keeping the action regular.
For reason is but the touchstone of experience, our own, inherited,
or acquired from others. It compares what we imagine with what we
know, and gives us answer in terms of the here and the now, which
we call the actual. But the actual is really nothing but the local.
It does not mark the limits of the possible.
That imagination has been the moving spirit of the psychical world
is evident, whatever branch of human thought we are pleased to
examine. We are in the habit, in common parlance, of making a
distinction between the search after truth and the search after
beauty, calling the one science and the other art. Now while we are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: her services as leech, she began plotting ill against him in her mind,
thinking that by doing evil to him she might find favor with his enemies.
Nevertheless, she kept this well to herself and received Robin
with seeming kindness. She led him up the winding stone stair
to a room which was just beneath the eaves of a high, round tower;
but she would not let Little John come with him.
So the poor yeoman turned his feet away from the door of
the nunnery, and left his master in the hands of the women.
But, though he did not come in, neither did he go far away;
for he laid him down in a little glade near by, where he could
watch the place that Robin abided, like some great, faithful dog
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: in premature labor at least, judging by Aunt Pitty's alarmed
summoning, was indignant and said as much. And upon learning the
cause of the upset, he settled the matter with words that left no
room for argument.
"It's out of the question for you to go to Macon, Miss Melly. I
won't answer for you if you move. The trains are crowded and
uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods
at any time, if the trains are needed for the wounded or troops and
supplies. In your condition--"
"But if I went to Tara with Scarlett--"
"I tell you I won't have you moved. The train to Tara is the train
Gone With the Wind |
