| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: her pen as her sister entered, and, taking up a blotter, carefully
laid it across the page she had been writing.
"Thank heaven, I don't have to go to that supper party," Barbara
announced, throwing herself full length on the lounge.
"So father gave it up," commented Helen. "I am glad."
"Gave up nothing," retorted her sister. "He and Margaret Brewster
are going."
"What!" Helen was on her feet. "You let them go out alone together?"
"They can't be alone if they are together," answered Barbara
practically. "Don't be silly, Helen."
Helen did not answer at once; she had grown singularly pale. Walking
The Red Seal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paradise Lost by John Milton: Deserving Paradise! if ever, then,
Then had the sons of God excuse to have been
Enamoured at that sight; but in those hearts
Love unlibidinous reigned, nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed,
Not burdened nature, sudden mind arose
In Adam, not to let the occasion pass
Given him by this great conference to know
Of things above his world, and of their being
Who dwell in Heaven, whose excellence he saw
Paradise Lost |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: trace with historic certainty for at least seven centuries
previous to his birth; while his life and achievements have
probably had a larger share in directing the entire subsequent
intellectual and moral development of Europe than those of any
other man who has ever lived. Nevertheless, the details of his
personal career are shrouded in an obscurity almost as dense as
that which envelops the life of the remote founder of Buddhism.
This phenomenon, however, appears less strange and paradoxical
when we come to examine it more closely. A little reflection will
disclose to us several good reasons why the historical records of
the life of Jesus should be so scanty as they are. In the first
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
