| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: to be expected) had a smart but eminently brief hemorrhage.
I am also on the quinine flask. I have been re-casting the
beginning of the HANGING JUDGE or WEIR OF HERMISTON; then I
have been cobbling on my grandfather, whose last chapter
(there are only to be four) is in the form of pieces of
paper, a huge welter of inconsequence, and that glimmer of
faith (or hope) which one learns at this trade, that somehow
and some time, by perpetual staring and glowering and
rewriting, order will emerge. It is indeed a queer hope;
there is one piece for instance that I want in - I cannot put
it one place for a good reason - I cannot put it another for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: through Anna. For a moment she felt like exclaiming: "All
this is really no business of mine, and I refuse to have you
mix me up in it--" but her secret fear held her fast.
Sophy Viner was the first to speak.
"I should like to go now," she said in a low voice, taking a
few steps toward the door.
Her tone woke Anna to the sense of her own share in the
situation. "I quite agree with you, my dear, that it's
useless to carry on this discussion. But since Mr. Darrow's
name has been brought into it, for reasons which I fail to
guess, I want to tell you that you're both mistaken if you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: the
midmost, or the highest,-
Great with those aids and by these powers support us, Strong
God! in
battle that subdues our foemen.
2 With these discomfit hosts that fight against us, and check
the
opponent's wrath, thyself uninjured.
With these chase all our foes to every quarter: subdue the
tribes of
Dasas to the Arya.
The Rig Veda |
