| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: Grasshopper and many others draw their bow, which is on the right
wing-case, over the sounding apparatus, which is on the left wing-
case. They are right-handed.
When you and I take an unpremeditated turn, we spin round on our
right heel. The left side, the weaker, moves on the pivot of the
right, the stronger. In the same way, nearly all the Molluscs that
have spiral shells roll their coils from left to right. Among the
numerous species in both land and water fauna, only a very few are
exceptional and turn from right to left.
It would be interesting to try and work out to what extent that
part of the zoological kingdom which boasts a two-sided structure
The Life of the Spider |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: king's race.' He ground his teeth. 'The only king in
Europe!' Who else? Who has done and suffered except me? who
has lain and run and hidden with his faithful subjects, like
a second Bruce? Not my accursed cousin, Louis of France, at
least, the lewd effeminate traitor!' And filling the glass
to the brim, he drank a king's damnation. Ah, if he had the
power of Louis, what a king were here!
The minutes followed each other into the past, and still he
persevered in this debilitating cycle of emotions, still fed
the fire of his excitement with driblets of Rhine wine: a boy
at odds with life, a boy with a spark of the heroic, which he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
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