| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: practitioner, Mr. Barker, the bone-setter, she was convinced she
could be restored to efficiency. But she had no ready money. The
bishop agreed without hesitation. His only doubt was the
certainty of the cure, but upon that point Lady Ella was
convinced; there had been a great experience in the Walshingham
family.
"It is pleasant to be able to do things like this," said Lady
Ella, standing over him when this matter was settled.
"Yes," the bishop agreed; "it is pleasant to be in a position
to do things like this...."
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH - THE SECOND VISION
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: emptied away into the splendid vastness and silence, and they were gone--
ready with all their might to live or to die, to be animals or heroes, as
the hours might bring them opportunity. In Drybone's deserted quadrangle
the sun shone down upon Lusk still sleeping, and the wind shook the aces
and kings in the grass.
PART IV
Over at Separ, Jessamine Buckner had no more stockings of Billy's to
mend, and much time for thinking and a change of mind. The day after that
strange visit, when she had been told that she had hurt a good man's
heart without reason, she took up her work; and while her hands
despatched it her thoughts already accused her. Could she have seen that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Shedding sweet influence: Less bright the moon,
But opposite in levelled west was set,
His mirrour, with full face borrowing her light
From him; for other light she needed none
In that aspect, and still that distance keeps
Till night; then in the east her turn she shines,
Revolved on Heaven's great axle, and her reign
With thousand lesser lights dividual holds,
With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared
Spangling the hemisphere: Then first adorned
With their bright luminaries that set and rose,
Paradise Lost |
