| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: wealth of all the world." GRIMM'S TALES.
TO MY WIFE
CONTENTS
YOUTH: A NARRATIVE
YOUTH
THIS could have occurred nowhere but in England,
where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak--the sea
entering into the life of most men, and the men know-
ing something or everything about the sea, in the way
of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.
We were sitting round a mahogany table that reflected
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: EXO 6:7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a
God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you
out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
EXO 6:8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I
did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give
it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
EXO 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they
hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
EXO 6:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
EXO 6:11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: could not help confessing to myself that this man's presence
caused me suffering. 'It is in my power,' thought I, 'to so
arrange things that I shall never see him again. But can it be
that I, _I_, fear him? No, I do not fear him. It would be too
humiliating!'
"And there in the hall, knowing that my wife heard me, I insisted
that he should come that very evening with his violin. He
promised me, and went away. In the evening he arrived with his
violin, and they played together. But for a long time things did
not go well; we had not the necessary music, and that which we
had my wife could not play at sight. I amused myself with their
The Kreutzer Sonata |
