| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: In our clear well of words.
Leave, leave it then, muse of my heart!
Sans finish and sans frame,
Leave unadorned by needless art
The picture as it came.
XXVIII - TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS
SINCE long ago, a child at home,
I read and longed to rise and roam,
Where'er I went, whate'er I willed,
One promised land my fancy filled.
Hence the long roads my home I made;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: sentiment toward the ruler? The first question I could not of
course ask, nor perhaps the natives answer. Even the second was
delicate; yet at last, and under charming and strange
circumstances, I found my opportunity to put it and a man to reply.
It was near the full of the moon, with a delicious breeze; the isle
was bright as day - to sleep would have been sacrilege; and I
walked in the bush, playing my pipe. It must have been the sound
of what I am pleased to call my music that attracted in my
direction another wanderer of the night. This was a young man
attired in a fine mat, and with a garland on his hair, for he was
new come from dancing and singing in the public hall; and his body,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: to be taken. They thronged about him with their voiceless
clamoring, drifted around him with their fading eyes.
CHAPTER XI
After nearly six months in the Nueces gorge the loneliness and
inaction of his life drove Duane out upon the trails seeking
anything rather than to hide longer alone, a prey to the
scourge of his thoughts. The moment he rode into sight of men a
remarkable transformation occurred in him. A strange warmth
stirred in him--a longing to see the faces of people, to hear
their voices--a pleasurable emotion sad and strange. But it was
only a precursor of his old bitter, sleepless, and eternal
The Lone Star Ranger |
