| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: all shimmer and melt together." My eccentric private errand
became a part of the general romance and the general glory--
I felt even a mystic companionship, a moral fraternity with all
those who in the past had been in the service of art. They had
worked for beauty, for a devotion; and what else was I doing?
That element was in everything that Jeffrey Aspern had written,
and I was only bringing it to the light.
I lingered in the sala when I went to and fro; I used to watch--
as long as I thought decent--the door that led to Miss Bordereau's part
of the house. A person observing me might have supposed I was trying
to cast a spell upon it or attempting some odd experiment in hypnotism.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: tied the end of a rope.
"I'll go down first," said he, "for while I'm not as
spry as Cap'n Bill I'm sure I can manage it easily. Are
you sure the rope is long enough to reach the bottom?"
"Quite sure," replied the Sorceress.
So the Wizard let down the rope and climbing through
the opening lowered himself down, hand over hand,
clinging to the rope with his legs and feet. Below in
the streets of the village were gathered all the
Skeezers, men, women and children, and you may be sure
that Ozma and Dorothy, with Lady Aurex, were filled
Glinda of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: Davidson knew that he would have to depend on himself in this
affair if it ever came off.
"Davidson underestimated naturally the driving power of the
Frenchman's character and the force of the actuating motive. To
that man so hopelessly crippled these dollars were an enormous
opportunity. With his share of the robbery he would open another
shop in Vladivostok, Haiphong, Manila - somewhere far away.
"Neither did it occur to Davidson, who is a man of courage, if ever
there was one, that his psychology was not known to the world at
large, and that to this particular lot of ruffians, who judged him
by his appearance, he appeared an unsuspicious, inoffensive, soft
Within the Tides |
