| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the Alehouse is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton,
but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably
had none. If Wednesday should ever come!
It did come, and exactly when it might be reasonably
looked for. It came--it was fine--and Catherine trod
on air. By ten o'clock, the chaise and four conveyed
the two from the abbey; and, after an agreeable drive
of almost twenty miles, they entered Woodston, a large
and populous village, in a situation not unpleasant.
Catherine was ashamed to say how pretty she thought it,
as the general seemed to think an apology necessary for
Northanger Abbey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: upon no peaceful mission.
All his captains rode today with Norman of Torn.
Beside those whom we have met there was Don Piedro
Castro y Pensilo of Spain; Baron of Cobarth of Germany,
and Sir John Mandecote of England. Like their leader,
each of these fierce warriors carried a great price upon
his head, and the story of the life of any one would
fill a large volume with romance, war, intrigue, treach-
ery, bravery and death.
Toward noon one day in the midst of a beautiful
valley of Essex they came upon a party of ten knights
The Outlaw of Torn |
