| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: a month since and yesterday we could see nothing of her but the
keel and about two planks. I could multiply instances without end.
At first one goes nearly mad with vexation at these things; but one
finds so soon that they are the rule, that then it becomes
necessary to feign a rage one does not feel. I look upon it as the
natural order of things, that if I order a thing, it will not be
done - if by accident it gets done, it will certainly be done
wrong: the only remedy being to watch the performance at every
stage.
'To-day was a grand field-day. I had steam up and tried the engine
against pressure or resistance. One part of the machinery is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: descent from a line neither less wild nor less warlike. Know,
Sir Knight of the Leopard, that I am Sheerkohf, the Lion of the
Mountain, and that Kurdistan, from which I derive my descent,
holds no family more noble than that of Seljook."
"I have heard," answered the Christian, "that your great Soldan
claims his blood from the same source?"
"Thanks to the Prophet that hath so far honoured our mountains as
to send from their bosom him whose word is victory," answered the
paynim. "I am but as a worm before the King of Egypt and Syria,
and yet in my own land something my name may avail. Stranger,
with how many men didst thou come on this warfare?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: That stands all fame beyond,
By oath to back the same,
Most faithful-foolish-fond;
Making her mere-breathed name
Their bond upon their bond.)
So thank I God my birth
Fell not in isles aside --
Waste headlands of the earth,
Or warring tribes untried --
But that she lent me worth
Verses 1889-1896 |
