| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: all a matter of distance.
But the living nebula is not composed of fixed stars; on the
contrary, its specks are in continual movement. The young Spiders
never cease shifting their position on the web. Many let
themselves drop, hanging by a length of thread, which the faller's
weight draws from the spinnerets. Then quickly they climb up again
by the same thread, which they wind gradually into a skein and
lengthen by successive falls. Others confine themselves to running
about the web and also give me the impression of working at a
bundle of ropes.
The thread, as a matter of fact, does not flow from the spinneret;
The Life of the Spider |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: "I have been to Mrs. Gordon."
"What for?"
Katy did not like to tell. She knew it would make her mother feel
very unhappy to know that she had borrowed money of Mrs. Gordon's
servant.
"Oh, I went up to see her," replied Katy.
"No matter, if you don't like to tell me," faintly replied Mrs.
Redburn.
"I will tell you, mother," answered Katy, stung by the gentle
rebuke contained in her mother's words.
"I suppose our money is all gone," sighed the sick woman.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Large the tree's self in semblance like a bay,
And, showered it not a different scent abroad,
A bay it had been; for no wind of heaven
Its foliage falls; the flower, none faster, clings;
With it the Medes for sweetness lave the lips,
And ease the panting breathlessness of age.
But no, not Mede-land with its wealth of woods,
Nor Ganges fair, and Hermus thick with gold,
Can match the praise of Italy; nor Ind,
Nor Bactria, nor Panchaia, one wide tract
Of incense-teeming sand. Here never bulls
Georgics |
