| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: the Ninth Nocturne onward. The stormy passage, which she
banged finely forth, was in truth a lover's quarrel;
and then the mild, placid flow of sweet harmonies into
which the furore sank, dying languorously away upon
a silence all alive with tender memories of sound--
was that not also a part of love?
They sat motionless through a minute--the man on the divan,
the girl at the piano--and Theron listened for what he
felt must be the audible thumping of his heart.
Then, throwing back her head, with upturned face, Celia began
what she had withheld for the last--the Sixteenth Mazurka.
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: From my hopes that turned to sand
Sifting through my close-clenched hand,
From my own fault's slavery,
If I can sing, I still am free.
For with my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile immortality.
III
The Flight
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "At this time, in this place, from a man like you--Yes, it is
right."
Lingard thought that woman wonderfully true to him and
wonderfully fearless with herself. The necessity to take back the
two captives to the stockade was so clear and unavoidable now,
that he believed nothing on earth could have stopped him from
doing so, but where was there another woman in the world who
would have taken it like this? And he reflected that in truth and
courage there is found wisdom. It seemed to him that till Mrs.
Travers came to stand by his side he had never known what truth
and courage and wisdom were. With his eyes on her face and having
The Rescue |
