| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: women about her or the picturesque disarray of the surrounding
objects. Her eyes had been so long accustomed to the glitter and
tinsel of circus fineries that she saw nothing unusual in a
picture that might have held a painter spellbound.
Circling the inside of the tent and forming a double line down
the centre were partially unpacked trunks belching forth impudent
masses of satins, laces, artificial hair, paper flowers, and
paste jewels. The scent of moist earth mingled oddly with the
perfumed odours of the garments heaped on the grass. Here and
there high circles of lights threw a strong, steady glare upon
the half-clad figure of a robust acrobat, or the thin, drooping
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: a room is to his mind such a coating; the walls are the outer coating,
while the air between both is the insulator, across which the charge
acts by induction. Without this reaction of the walls upon the
sphere you could no more, according to Faraday, charge it with
electricity than you could charge a Leyden jar, if its outer coating
were removed. Distance with him is immaterial. His strength as a
generalizer enables him to dissolve the idea of magnitude; and if
you abolish the walls of the room--even the earth itself--he would
make the sun and planets the outer coating of his jar. I dare not
contend that Faraday in these memoirs made all his theoretic
positions good. But a pure vein of philosophy runs through these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: black head. Thus have you a jury of flies, likely to betray and condemn
all the Trouts in the river.
I shall next give you some other directions for fly-fishing, such as are
given by Mr. Thomas Barker, a gentleman that hath spent much time in
fishing: but I shall do it with a little variation.
First, let your rod be light, and very gentle: I take the best to be of two
pieces. And let not your line exceed, especially for three or four links
next to the hook, I say, not exceed three or four hairs at the most;
though you may fish a little stronger above, in the upper part of your
line: but if you can attain to angle with one hair, you shall have more
rises, and catch more fish. Now you must be sure not to cumber
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