| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: smile, and heard in every one of his smooth phrases a voice
interpreting their treacherous import.
But Zoraide Reuter? Of course her defection had cut me to the
quick? That stint; must have gone too deep for any consolations
of philosophy to be available in curing its smart? Not at all.
The night fever over, I looked about for balm to that wound also,
and found some nearer home than at Gilead. Reason was my
physician; she began by proving that the prize I had missed was
of little value: she admitted that, physically, Zoraide might
have suited me, but affirmed that our souls were not in harmony,
and that discord must have resulted from the union of her mind
The Professor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis: he is; just listen:--'Circuit Court. Judge Day. Hugh Wolfe,
operative in Kirby & John's Loudon Mills. Charge, grand
larceny. Sentence, nineteen years hard labor in penitentiary.
Scoundrel! Serves him right! After all our kindness that
night! Picking Mitchell's pocket at the very time!"
His wife said something about the ingratitude of that kind of
people, and then they began to talk of something else.
Nineteen years! How easy that was to read! What a simple word
for Judge Day to utter! Nineteen years! Half a lifetime!
Hugh Wolfe sat on the window-ledge of his cell, looking out.
His ankles Were ironed. Not usual in such cases; but he had
Life in the Iron-Mills |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: supreme
and sole dominion.
5 Lodged in old plants, he grows again in younger, swiftly
within the
newly-born and tender.
Though they are unimpregned, he makes them fruitful. Great
is the
Gods' supreme and sole dominion.
6 Now lying far away, Child of two Mothers, he wanders unrestrained,
the single youngling.
These are the laws of Varuna and Mitra. Great is the Gods'
The Rig Veda |
