| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: I regret to say that Berry and Jonah thought it decent to
attempt to stone my retreating figure. Ten minutes' walking
brought me to a clearing on the top, which afforded a magnificent
view. Hill and dale, woodland and pasture, stone wall and
hedgerow, as far as I could see. The sinking sun was lighting
gloriously the autumn livery of the woods, and, far in the
distance, I could see the silver streak of the river flowing to
the village on whose skirts stood the house that was our bourne.
When I returned to the camp to find them gone I was rather bored.
The note that they had left made it worse:
"Regret compelled retire owing to serious outflanking movement on
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: to them.
The deep darkness of the sphere that was now about them was that of
the sun of the visible worlds.
"Let us descend to those lower regions," said Wilfrid.
"Let us do what he told us to do," answered Minna. "We have seen the
worlds on their march to God; we know the Path. Our diadem of stars is
There."
Floating downward through the abysses, they re-entered the dust of the
lesser worlds, and saw the Earth, like a subterranean cavern, suddenly
illuminated to their eyes by the light which their souls brought with
them, and which still environed them in a cloud of the paling
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: to this second and higher part of me. Moreover, quite at the
beginning of my career I had concluded from observation that a
man gets on better in life alone, rather than with another to
drag at his side, or by whom perhaps he must be dragged. Still
true marriage, such as most men and some women have dreamed of in
their youth, had always been one of my ideals; indeed it was on
and around this vision that I wrote that first book of mine which
was so successful. Since I knew this to be unattainable in our
imperfect conditions, however, notwithstanding Bastin's
strictures, again I dismissed the whole matter from my mind as a
vain imagination.
When the World Shook |
