| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: And through the breach of the revolving doors
What dreams of splendour blinded us and fled!
I have since then contended and rejoiced;
Amid the glories of the house of life
Profoundly entered, and the shrine beheld:
Yet when the lamp from my expiring eyes
Shall dwindle and recede, the voice of love
Fall insignificant on my closing ears,
What sound shall come but the old cry of the wind
In our inclement city? what return
But the image of the emptiness of youth,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: worker. The man went in among the Trees. I looked for the dead
Beast. He had been killed in a new way - by a single deep, clean
cut, without bruise or tear, which had split his bad heart. Wonderful!
So I saw that the man's knife was magic, and I thought
how to get it, - thought strongly how to get it.
'When I brought the flocks to the shearing, my Mother the
Priestess asked me, "What is the new thing which you have seen
and I see in your face?" I said, "It is a sorrow to me"; and she
answered, "All new things are sorrow. Sit in my place, and eat
sorrow." I sat down in her place by the fire, where she talks to the
ghosts in winter, and two voices spoke in my heart. One voice
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: their number, gender, their respective ages--all about them.
Be sure you observe everything; be ready to describe
to me the locality, the accessories--how shall I say it?--
the mise en scene. Then, at my own time, at my own hour,
under circumstances of my own choosing, I will go to them.
I will present myself--I will appear before them!" said the Baroness,
this time phrasing her idea with a certain frankness.
"And what message am I to take to them?" asked Felix, who had a lively
faith in the justness of his sister's arrangements.
She looked at him a moment--at his expression of agreeable veracity;
and, with that justness that he admired, she replied, "Say what you please.
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