| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: If ye approve not even this, Sudhanvan's Sons, then at the
third
libation gladden ye yourselves.
9 Most excellent are waters, thus said one of you; most excellent
is
Agni, thus another said.
Another praised to many a one the lightning cloud. Then did
ye shape
the cups, speaking the words of truth.
10 One downward to the water drives the crippled cow, another
trims
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: "That of incapacitating Senor Rojas for to-night, and perhaps
several nights to come," replied Gale.
"Dick, what will you do?" asked Thorne, now in alarm.
"I'll make a row in that saloon," returned Dick, bluntly. "I'll
start something. I'll rush Rojas and his crowd. I'll--"
"Lord, no; you mustn't, Dick--you'll be knifed!" cried Thorne.
He was in distress, yet his eyes were shining.
"I'll take a chance. Maybe I can surprise that slow Greaser bunch
and get away before they know what's happened....You be ready
watching at the window. When the row starts those fellows out
there in the plaza will run into the saloon. Then you slip out,
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: classes in the days when students took rank on the catalogue from
their parents' condition. Elzevirs, with the Latinized
appellations of youthful progenitors, and HIC LIBER EST MEUS on the
title-page. A set of Hogarth's original plates. Pope, original
edition, 15 volumes, London, 1717. Barrow on the lower shelves, in
folio. Tillotson on the upper, in a little dark platoon of octo-
decimos.
Some family silver; a string of wedding and funeral rings; the arms
of the family curiously blazoned; the same in worsted, by a maiden
aunt.
If the man of family has an old place to keep these things in,
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table |
