| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: indebted to Lafcadio Hearn for the episode called "The Screen Maiden"
in Part II.
THE HOUSE OF DUST
PART I.
I.
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:
And lights wink out through the windows, one by one.
A clamor of frosty sirens mourns at the night.
Pale slate-grey clouds whirl up from the sunken sun.
And the wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: bidding of your Lord?' and he threw down the tablets and took his
brother by the head to drag him towards him, but he said, 'O son of my
mother! verily, the people weakened me and well-nigh killed me; make
not then mine enemies glad about me, and put me not with the unjust
people.' He said, 'O Lord! pardon me and my brother, and let us
enter into Thy mercy; for Thou art the most merciful of the
merciful. Verily, these have taken to themselves a calf; there shall
reach them wrath from their Lord, and abasement in the life of this
world; for thus do we reward those who forge a lie. But those who have
done bad works, and then turn again after them and believe,- verily,
thy Lord, after that, is forgiving and merciful.'
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: he found, while the day was yet young, that he had undervalued.
At a bound Buck took up the duties of leadership; and where
judgment was required, and quick thinking and quick acting, he
showed himself the superior even of Spitz, of whom Francois had
never seen an equal.
But it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it,
that Buck excelled. Dave and Sol-leks did not mind the change in
leadership. It was none of their business. Their business was to
toil, and toil mightily, in the traces. So long as that were not
interfered with, they did not care what happened. Billee, the
good-natured, could lead for all they cared, so long as he kept
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