Literary Quest

  Rudyard Kipling – If If you can keep your head when all about you       Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,     But make allowance for their doubting too;   If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,     Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,     And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:   If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;       If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;   If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken     Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,     And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:   If you can make one heap of all your winnings     And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings     And never

                           Anxiety Monster - Rhona McFerran Anxiety, Anxiety- you creep, you lurk, you worry me Mangy monster under my bed on all my fears you must be fed and when I try to starve you out you stab me with a blade of doubt   You sneaky, scurrilous, savage beast I don't hate you, but I like you least! You are not cute or cuddly why do I let you cling to me? You're ugly and you're worrisome you drain my joy and leave me glum   Anxiety, Anxiety- I hear you've achieved notoriety evidently I'm not the only one you'll hassle them all before you're done! 'Though, I don't see how you find the time to carry out your heinous crime...   For all day long, and nighttime, too a hovering pest, too big to "shoo" you hang around and taunt me fierce by dangling daggers with which to pierce I tremble in my delicate skin but chin stuck out, I'm determined to win   Anxiety, Anxiety-

  Jerome K. Jerome- excerpt from Three Men in a Boat (Packing Episode) "Three Men in a Boat" is a humorous travelogue written by Jerome K. Jerome in 1889. The book recounts the misadventures of three friends—Jerome himself, George, and Harris—as they embark on a boating trip from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford. In the "Packing” Episode, the author presents how the friends struggle to pack their things for the trip. As Jerome, Harris, and George are ready to set out on a journey, they start packing for it. Being the narrator, Jerome describes how the packing experience went. Jerome is quite confident with his packing skills as he handles it all alone. While in reality, he wishes to simply supervise the packing session while making his friends do the work under him. However, they listen to him and let him handle it all by himself, while they sit and relax. This does not impress Jerome; nonetheless, he gets to it. Finally, after a long packing session, he packs the ba