| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: endowed with a compelling fascination, like a symbolic figure of
loyalty appealing to their feelings and their conscience, so that
they could not detach their thoughts from his safety. Several
times they went up on deck, only to look at the coast, as if it
could tell them something of his fate. It stretched away,
lengthening in the distance, mute, naked, and savage, veiled now
and then by the slanting cold shafts of rain. The westerly swell
rolled its interminable angry lines of foam and big dark clouds
flew over the ship in a sinister procession.
"I wish to goodness you had done what your little friend in the
yellow hat wanted you to do," said the commander of the sloop late
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: This earth, it is also a star!
Looking out where our planet is swung
Doubt loses his writhen grimace,
Dry hearts drink the gleams and are young;--
Where agony's boughs interlace
His Garden some Jesus may pace,
Lifting, the wan avatar,
His soul to this light as a vase!
This earth, it is also a star!
Great spirits in sorrowful case
Yearn to us through the vapors that bar:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: [Enter Cromwell and his train.]
CROMWELL.
Is the Barge ready? I will straight to Lambeth,
And if this one day's business once were past,
I'd take my ease to morrow after trouble.--
How now, my friend, wouldst thou speak with me?
[The Messenger brings him the letter; he puts it in
his pocket.]
MESSENGER.
Sir, here's a letter from my Lord of Bedford.
CROMWELL.
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