| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: said shortly.
"I presume so," remarked the general. Then
he began to talk rapidly and in a lower tone. He
frequently illustrated his words with a pointing
finger. The two infantrymen could hear nothing
until finally he asked: "What troops can you
spare?"
The officer who rode like a cowboy reflected
for an instant. "Well," he said, "I had to order
in th' 12th to help th' 76th, an' I haven't really got
any. But there's th' 304th. They fight like a
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: should not be married if the queen pleased.
293. Cf. PURGATORIO, v. 133:
'Ricorditi di me, che son la Pia;
Siena mi fe', disfecemi Maremma.'
307. _V._ St. Augustine's CONFESSIONS: 'to Carthage then I came,
where a cauldron of unholy loves sang all about mine ears'.
308. The complete text of the Buddha's Fire Sermon (which corresponds
in importance to the Sermon on the Mount) from which these words are taken,
will be found translated in the late Henry Clarke Warren's _Buddhism
in Translation_ (Harvard Oriental Series). Mr. Warren was one
of the great pioneers of Buddhist studies in the Occident.
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: toward the east.
In the center of the meadow stood the ape-man watching
them. "It is too bad that she is a German and a spy," he said,
"for she is very hard to hate."
The Black Lion
Numa, the lion, was hungry. He had come out of the
desert country to the east into a land of plenty but
though he was young and strong, the wary grass-eaters
had managed to elude his mighty talons each time he had
thought to make a kill.
Numa, the lion, was hungry and very savage. For two days
Tarzan the Untamed |
