| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: "Well, do you know, I rather think that is a good touch,"
she replied; "it will make people really think a man wrote the book.
You know I am going to take a man's name."
"That is precisely what I imagined," said Irais.
"You will call yourself John Jones, or George Potts,
or some such sternly commonplace name, to emphasise your
uncompromising attitude towards all feminine weaknesses,
and no one will be taken in."
"I really think, Elizabeth," said Irais to me later,
when the click of Minora's typewriter was heard hesitating
in the next room, "that you and I are writing her book for her.
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: HARVEST HYMN
Men's Voices
Lord of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
Bright and munificent lord of the morn!
Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that nurtured our corn.
We bring thee our songs and our garlands for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: gained a certain dignity of effect from the fashion
in which the thin, iron-grey hair, parted in the middle,
fell away from the full, intellectual temples, and curled
in meek locks upon his collar. A vague resemblance
to the type of Wesley--or was it Froebel?--might have
hinted itself to the observer's mind.
Thorpe's thoughts, however, were not upon types.
"Well"--he said, from the opposite chair, in his roundest,
heartiest voice, when the other had with diffidence suffered
himself to be served, and had deferentially lighted
on one side the big cigar pressed upon him--"Well--and
The Market-Place |
