| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: the earth rolled away to meet the sky.
"Lou and Oscar can't see those things," said
Alexandra suddenly. "Suppose I do will my
land to their children, what difference will that
make? The land belongs to the future, Carl;
that's the way it seems to me. How many of the
names on the county clerk's plat will be there
in fifty years? I might as well try to will the
sunset over there to my brother's children. We
come and go, but the land is always here. And
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Great North Road in future."
"No jewels?" said I. "You have a wealth of hair, and what
about the pearls behind your lips? They're worth a king's
ransom."
"They're not made to take out, though, and there's no gold with
them."
She put up the red mouth and showed two rows of teeth, white and
even.
"Tempt me no more," said I. "Oh, Eve, you're just as bad as
ever. After all this time, too. However. I hesitate to mention
supper, because you look so lovely sitting there, but- "
The Brother of Daphne |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: pour forth in abundance while others flow drop by drop, thus,
understand thou, is it also with our choices. Some choices are
swift and exceeding fervent, others languid and cold: some have a
bias entirely toward virtue, while others incline with all their
force to its opposite. And like in nature to these choices are
the ensuing impulses to action."
XVI.
Ioasaph said unto the elder, "Are there now others, too, who
preach the same doctrines as thou? Or art thou to-day the only
one that teacheth this hatred of the present world?"
The other answered and said, "In this your most unhappy country I
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