| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: against them; and we gave him treasuries of which the keys would
bear down a band of men endowed with strength. When his people said to
him, 'Exult not; verily, God loves not those who exult! but crave,
through what God has given thee, the future abode; and forget not
thy portion in this world, and do good, as God has done good to
thee; and seek not evil doing in the earth; verily, God loves not
the evildoers!'
Said he, 'I have only been given it for knowledge which I have!' did
he not know that God had destroyed before him many generations of
those who were stronger than he, and had amassed more? But the sinners
need not to be asked concerning their crimes.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 199. I do not know the origin of the ballad from which these lines
are taken: it was reported to me from Sydney, Australia.
202. _V._ Verlaine, PARSIFAL.
210. The currants were quoted at a price 'carriage and insurance
free to London'; and the Bill of Lading, etc., were to be handed
to the buyer upon payment of the sight draft.
Notes 196 and 197 were transposed in this and the Hogarth Press edition,
but have been corrected here.
210. 'Carriage and insurance free'] 'cost, insurance and freight'--Editor.
218. Tiresias, although a mere spectator and not indeed a 'character',
is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest.
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: humanitarian, a diver and a strong swimmer. I love
my Bowery. It was my cradle and is my inspiration.
I have published one book. The critics have been kind.
I put my heart in it. I am writing another, into which
I hope to put both heart and brain. Consider me your
guide, gentlemen. Is there arything I can take you to
see, any place to which I can conduct you?"
I was afraid to look at Rivington except with one
eye.
"Thanks," said Rivington. "We were looking up
. . . that is . . . my friend . . . confound
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