| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: and naturalness. It was like a sigh which they
had breathed together; almost sorrowful, as if
each were afraid of wakening something in the
other.
When the lights came on again, everybody
was laughing and shouting, and all the French
girls were rosy and shining with mirth. Only
Marie, in her little tent of shawls, was pale and
quiet. Under her yellow turban the red coral
pendants swung against white cheeks. Frank
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: been made by a woman, it was so narrow. But presently I saw that
this could scarcely be, because of its length, and moreover, that
the boot which left it was like none that I knew, being cut very
high at the instep and very pointed at the toe. Then, of a sudden,
it came upon me that the Spanish stranger wore such boots, for I
had noted them while I talked with him, and that his feet were
following those of my mother, for they had trodden on her track,
and in some places, his alone had stamped their impress on the sand
blotting out her footprints. Then, too, I knew what the white rag
was that I had thrown aside. It was my mother's mantilla which I
knew, and yet did not know, because I always saw it set daintily
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: the light.
As thou, O Indra Thunder-armed, wilt, as the Strong One, slay
the foe,
Listen thou to the prayer of me a later sage, hear thou a later
sage's
prayer.
7 O Indra, waxen strong and well-inclined to us, thou very
mighty,
slay the man that is our foe, slay the man, Hero! with thy
bolt.
Slay thou the man who injures us: hear thou, as readiest, to
The Rig Veda |
