| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: into the castle-moat, and swattered through it like a wild-duck.
He's a clever fallow, indeed! maun kilt awa wi' ae bonny lass in
the morning, and another at night, less wadna serve him! but if
he disna kilt himsell out o' the country, I'se kilt him wi' a
tow, for the Castleton meeting's clean blawn ower; his friends
will no countenance him."
During the general confusion, Isabella had thrown herself at the
feet of her kinsman, Sir Edward Mauley, for so we must now call
the Solitary, to express at once her gratitude, and to beseech
forgiveness for her father. The eyes of all began to be fixed on
them, as soon as their own agitation and the bustle of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: . Yes, in spite of the fact that she is no longer in her early
youth, he has not disdained her. At any rate, she is by no means
ugly, and above all, not dangerous to his dear health, to him.
Why did I not stifle her then?' said I to myself, as I remembered
that other scene of the previous week, when I drove her from my
study, and broke the furniture.
"And I recalled the state in which I was then. Not only did I
recall it, but I again entered into the same bestial state. And
suddenly there came to me a desire to act, and all reasoning,
except such as was necessary to action, vanished from my brain,
and I was in the condition of a beast, and of a man under the
The Kreutzer Sonata |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Where the wolverene tumbles their packs
from the camp and the grave-mound they made them;
Hear now the Song of the Dead!
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We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town;
We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need,
Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.
Verses 1889-1896 |
