| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: Just as he dreamed it was; and looked away,
And up again, feeling his blood go wild.
He gave the signal; the long girder swung
Closer to him, dropped clanging into place,
Almost pushing him off. Pneumatic hammers
Began their madhouse clatter, the white-hot rivets
Were tossed from below and deftly caught in pails;
He signalled again, and wiped his mouth, and thought
A place so high in the air should be more quiet.
The tree, far down below, teased at his eyes,
Teased at the corners of them, until he looked,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: But it is very strange. _I_ was just
going to invite you to come here,
to supper, my dear Ribby, to eat
something MOST DELICIOUS."
"I will come very punctually, my
dear Ribby," wrote Duchess; and
then at the end she added--"I hope
it isn't mouse?"
And then she thought that did
not look quite polite; so she scratched
out "isn't mouse" and changed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: whiten them up fur a little while, he says, it wouldn't
make no difference if they did get black agin.
This here Anti-Curl stuff works like that--it
takes the kinks out fur a little while, and they come
back agin. But that don't seem to hurt the sale
none. It only calls fur MORE of Doctor Jackson's
medicine.
The doctor takes me around to the place he boards
at, and shows me a nigger waiter he has been ex-
perimenting on. He had paid the nigger's fine in a
police court fur slashing another nigger some with
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