| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: The snake of lightning
Is twisting and white,
The lion of thunder
Roars -- and we
Sit still and content
Under a tree --
We have met fate together
And love and pain,
Why should we fear
The wrath of the rain!
In the End
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: You're sleepy. You can have Sullivan's red necktie to dream over
if you think it will help any."
Mrs. Klopton's voice came drowsily from the next room, punctuated
by a yawn. "Oh, I forgot to tell you," she called, with the
suspicious lisp which characterizes her at night, "somebody called
up about noon, Mr. Lawrence. It was long distance, and he said
he would call again. The name was" - she yawned - "Sullivan."
CHAPTER XII
THE GOLD BAG
I have always smiled at those cases of spontaneous combustion which,
like fusing the component parts of a seidlitz powder, unite two
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: an Indian chief, gilded all over, stood during the better part of
a century on the cupola of the Province House, bedazzling the
eyes of those who looked upward, like an angel of the sun.
Another work of the good deacon's hand--a reduced likeness of his
friend Captain Hunnewell, holding a telescope and quadrant--may
be seen to this day, at the corner of Broad and State streets,
serving in the useful capacity of sign to the shop of a nautical
instrument maker. We know not how to account for the inferiority
of this quaint old figure, as compared with the recorded
excellence of the Oaken Lady, unless on the supposition that in
every human spirit there is imagination, sensibility, creative
Mosses From An Old Manse |
