| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: delightful from its novelty. The most trivial details did not
escape him; and Lucy soon learned to watch the flush of scorn
which crossed Ravenswood's cheek, when he heard her father
gravely arguing with Lockhard, nay, even with the old
housekeeper, upon circumstances which, in families of rank, are
left uncared for, because it is supposed impossible they can be
neglected.
"I could pardon Sir William," said Ravenswood, one evening after
he had left the room, "some general anxiety upon this occasion,
for the Marquis's visit is an honour, and should be received as
such; but I am worn out by these miserable minutiae of the
The Bride of Lammermoor |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: But be my hopes rewarded,
Or be they but in vain,
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have gathered in the grain -
I have dreamed a golden vision,
I have not lived in vain.
DEDICATION
MY first gift and my last, to you
I dedicate this fascicle of songs -
The only wealth I have:
Just as they are, to you.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: all alive and laying for Lem, and you could see he was
getting ready to cross-question him to death pretty soon,
and then I judged him and me would go on the stand
by and by and tell what we heard him and Jim Lane say.
But the next time I looked at Tom I got the cold shivers.
Why, he was in the brownest study you ever see--miles and
miles away. He warn't hearing a word Lem Beebe was saying;
and when he got through he was still in that brown-study,
just the same. Our lawyer joggled him, and then he looked
up startled, and says, "Take the witness if you want him.
Lemme alone--I want to think."
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