| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: but he never gave it. He stood there with me on the break of the poop
after the main topsail blew away, and whimpered about our last hope--
positively whimpered about it and nothing else--and the night coming on!
To hear one's skipper go on like that in such weather was enough
to drive any fellow out of his mind. It worked me up into a sort
of desperation. I just took it into my own hands and went
away from him, boiling, and--But what's the use telling you?
YOU know! . . . Do you think that if I had not been pretty fierce
with them I should have got the men to do anything? Not It!
The bo's'n perhaps? Perhaps! It wasn't a heavy sea--it was a sea
gone mad! I suppose the end of the world will be something like that;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: I am a minstrel with a harp,
For love of her my songs are sweet,
And yet I dare not lift the voice
That lies so far beneath her feet.
III
The Knight sings:
O princess cease your dreams awhile
And look adown your tower's gray side --
The princess gazes far away,
Nor hears nor heeds the words I cried.
Perchance my heart was overbold,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: [2] This name, signifying "Snow," is not uncommon. On the subject of
Japanese female names, see my paper in the volume entitled Shadowings.
(2) Also spelled Edo, the former name of Tokyo.
THE STORY OF AOYAGI
(1) An ancient province corresponding to the northern part of present-day
Ishikawa Prefecture.
(2) An ancient province corresponding to the eastern part of present-day
Fukui Prefecture.
[1] The name signifies "Green Willow;" -- though rarely met with, it is
still in use.
[2] The poem may be read in two ways; several of the phrases having a
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