| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: "Oh no!" she earnestly assured me. "Not in the least bereaved.
It is her baby still--it is with her--she has not lost it. But
she is not the only one to care for it. There are others whom she
knows to be wiser. She knows it because she has studied as they
did, practiced as they did, and honors their real superiority. For
the child's sake, she is glad to have for it this highest care."
I was unconvinced. Besides, this was only hearsay; I had yet
to see the motherhood of Herland.
CHAPTER 8
The Girls of Herland
At last Terry's ambition was realized. We were invited,
Herland |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: "We feel highly honoured by your Majesty's proposal, but you see
our daughter is a tender young thing, and we fear that in the
vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury.
Might I venture to suggest that your Majesty should have your
claws removed, and your teeth extracted, then we would gladly
consider your proposal again." The Lion was so much in love that
he had his claws trimmed and his big teeth taken out. But when he
came again to the parents of the young girl they simply laughed in
his face, and bade him do his worst.
Love can tame the wildest.
The Bundle of Sticks
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: countenance might have been could one have pictured its neat
features disordered by a rattling breeze. She even pushed
the analogy farther, and descried in her step-son's mind a
quaintly-twisted reflection of her husband's. With his
bursts of door-slamming activity, his fits of bookish
indolence, his crude revolutionary dogmatizing and his
flashes of precocious irony, the boy was not unlike a
boisterous embodiment of his father's theories. It was as
though Fraser Leath's ideas, accustomed to hang like
marionettes on their pegs, should suddenly come down and
walk. There were moments, indeed, when Owen's humours must
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