| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "You laugh and answer, `We are young;
O leave us now, and let us grow.' --
Not asking how much more of this
Will Time endure or Fate bestow.
"Because a few complacent years
Have made your peril of your pride,
Think you that you are to go on
Forever pampered and untried?
"What lost eclipse of history,
What bivouac of the marching stars,
Has given the sign for you to see
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: palpable unknown, and further and further rolled the waves of herself
away from herself leaving her, till suddenly, in a soft, shuddering
convulsion, the quick of all her plasm was touched, she knew herself
touched, the consummation was upon her, and she was gone. She was gone,
she was not, and she was born: a woman.
Ah, too lovely, too lovely! In the ebbing she realized all the
loveliness. Now all her body clung with tender love to the unknown man,
and blindly to the wilting penis, as it so tenderly, frailly,
unknowingly withdrew, after the fierce thrust of its potency. As it
drew out and left her body, the secret, sensitive thing, she gave an
unconscious cry of pure loss, and she tried to put it back. It had been
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: feet in height. The bed of the stream itself was filled with them
for a mile, save in a narrow channel left down through the middle to
allow for some flow of water; the banks were piled with them, side
on, ready to roll down at the urging of the men.
First of all, the entire crew set itself, by means of its peavies,
to rolling the lower logs into the current, where they were rapidly
borne away. As the waters were now at flood, this was a quick and
easy labour. Occasionally some tiers would be stuck together by
ice, in which case considerable prying and heaving was necessary in
order to crack them apart. But forty men, all busily at work, soon
had the river full. Orde detailed some six or eight to drop below
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