| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: have given me a lot of trouble for the last dozen years, and will, I
suppose to my dying day."
"Tell us the yarn, Quatermain," said Good. "You have often promised to
tell me, and you never have."
"You had better not ask me to," he answered, "for it is a longish one."
"All right," I said, "the evening is young, and there is some more
port."
Thus adjured, he filled his pipe from a jar of coarse-cut Boer tobacco
that was always standing on the mantelpiece, and still walking up and
down the room, began--
"It was, I think, in the March of '69 that I was up in Sikukuni's
Long Odds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Clings round her limbs. Down from the jutting beach
Supine he cast him, to that pendent rock,
Which closes on one part the other chasm.
Never ran water with such hurrying pace
Adown the tube to turn a landmill's wheel,
When nearest it approaches to the spokes,
As then along that edge my master ran,
Carrying me in his bosom, as a child,
Not a companion. Scarcely had his feet
Reach'd to the lowest of the bed beneath,
When over us the steep they reach'd; but fear
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: figure, and there was the marvelous sword play as well.
It must be he, and yet Roger de Conde had spoken no
English while this man spoke it well, though, it was
true, with a slight French accent.
"My Lady Bertrade, I be Norman of Torn," said the
visored knight with quiet dignity.
The girl's heart sank, and a feeling of cold fear crept
through her. For years that name had been the symbol
of fierce cruelty, and mad hatred against her kind.
Little children were frightened into obedience by the
vaguest hint that the Devil of Torn would get them,
The Outlaw of Torn |
