| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Honolulu.
XXXI - TO MOTHER MARYANNE
To see the infinite pity of this place,
The mangled limb, the devastated face,
The innocent sufferer smiling at the rod -
A fool were tempted to deny his God.
He sees, he shrinks. But if he gaze again,
Lo, beauty springing from the breast of pain!
He marks the sisters on the mournful shores;
And even a fool is silent and adores.
Guest House, Kalawao, Molokai.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: before it came again.
How should I find him in this great city? Doubtless, though I had
not thought of it, de Garcia passed under some feigned name as he
had done at Yarmouth. It was bitter indeed to have been so near to
vengeance and to have missed it.
By now I was at home and bethought me that I should do well to go
to Fonseca, my master, and ask his help. Hitherto I had said
nothing of this matter to him, for I have always loved to keep my
own counsel, and as yet I had not spoken of my past even to him.
Going to the room where be was accustomed to receive patients, I
found he had retired to rest, leaving orders that I was not to
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: "Or else you can beget children. They both carry on her effort."
"Painting is not living."
"Then live."
"Marry whom?" came the sulky question.
"As best you can."
"Miriam?"
But he did not trust that.
He rose suddenly, went straight to bed. When he got inside
his bedroom and closed the door, he stood with clenched fist.
"Mater, my dear---" he began, with the whole force of his soul.
Then he stopped. He would not say it. He would not admit that he
Sons and Lovers |
