| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: his purpose he was joined by Harry Kent.
"Finley had to go out," the latter explained.
"I told him I would go up to Rochester's apartment with you."
Ferguson thoughtfully caressed his clean-shaven jaw for a second,
then came to a rapid decision.
"Lead the way, sir," he said. "I'll follow." Kent found him a
silent companion while in the elevator and when walking down the
corridor to Rochester's apartment, but once inside the living room,
with the outer door tightly closed, Ferguson tossed down his hat
and his whole demeanor changed.
"Sit down, Mr. Kent." He selected a chair near Rochester's desk
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: circle above circle of bare rock they have scaled; and, wandering there, in
those high regions, some have chanced to pick up on the ground one white
silver feather, dropped from the wing of Truth. And it shall come to
pass," said the old man, raising himself prophetically and pointing with
his finger to the sky, "it shall come to pass, that when enough of those
silver feathers shall have been gathered by the hands of men, and shall
have been woven into a cord, and the cord into a net, that in that net
Truth may be captured. Nothing but Truth can hold Truth."
The hunter arose. "I will go," he said.
But wisdom detained him.
"Mark you well--who leaves these valleys never returns to them. Though he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Drugged with slumber and milk, you wait the day of the Lord.
Infant bridegroom, uncrowned king, unanointed priest,
Soldier, lover, explorer, I see you nuzzle the breast.
You that grope in my bosom shall load the ladies with rings,
You, that came forth through the doors, shall burst the doors of kings.
XIV
BRIGHT is the ring of words
When the right man rings them,
Fair the fall of songs
When the singer sings them.
Still they are carolled and said -
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