| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: the sun gets higher, the most fluid portion, in its effort to obey
the law to which the most inert also yields, separates from the
latter and forms for itself a meandering channel or artery within
that, in which is seen a little silvery stream glancing like
lightning from one stage of pulpy leaves or branches to another, and
ever and anon swallowed up in the sand. It is wonderful how rapidly
yet perfectly the sand organizes itself as it flows, using the best
material its mass affords to form the sharp edges of its channel.
Such are the sources of rivers. In the silicious matter which the
water deposits is perhaps the bony system, and in the still finer
soil and organic matter the fleshy fibre or cellular tissue. What
Walden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: do its wanderings stop there? Not so, my child. Nothing upon
this earth, as I told you once before, continues in one stay.
That grain of mineral might stay at the bottom of the sea a
thousand or ten thousand years, and yet the time would come when
Madam How would set to work on it again. Slowly, perhaps, she
would sink that mud so deep, and cover it up with so many fresh
beds of mud, or sand, or lime, that under the heavy weight, and
perhaps, too, under the heat of the inside of the earth, that Mud
would slowly change to hard Slate Rock; and ages after, it may be,
Madam How might melt that Slate Rock once more, and blast it out;
and then through the mouth of a volcano the little grain of
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: to; and in the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding
farewell, the more gentle adieux of her sisters were uttered
without being heard.
Chapter 42
Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she
could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal
felicity or domestic comfort. Her father, captivated by youth
and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth
and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak
understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage
put and end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem, and
Pride and Prejudice |
