| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: like those chambers they pointed out to the tourist wherein
crowned heads had slept. The manner of the Marquis lent
itself charmingly to this illusion. He spoke in a facile,
mellifluous voice, and as fluently as if he had been
at work for a long time preparing a dissertation on
this subject, instead of taking it up now by chance.
In his tone, in his gestures, in the sustained friendliness
of his facial expressions, there was a palpable desire
to please his auditor--and Thorpe gave more heed to this
than to the thread of the discourse. The facts that he
heard now about the Jewish masters of international finance
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: There yet remains what fashion cannot kill,
Though years have thinned the laurel from his brows.
Whether or not we read him, we can feel
From time to time the vigor of his name
Against us like a finger for the shame
And emptiness of what our souls reveal
In books that are as altars where we kneel
To consecrate the flicker, not the flame.
Credo
I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: experience--"for gallantry and magnificence," he was now
penniless, his great estates being confiscated by Cromwell.
However, conceiving a scheme that might secure him part of his
fortune, he hastened to put it into execution.
It happened that my Lord Fairfax, one of Cromwell's great
generals, had allotted to him by the Protector a portion of the
Buckingham estates that returned five thousand pounds a year.
The general was, moreover, placed in possession of York House,
which had likewise belonged to his grace.
Now it happened Lord Fairfax, a generous-tempered man and brave
soldier, had an only child, a daughter destined to become his
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