| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: have been stupid and foolish. Will you unlock that door?"
"Never!" he said. "Confound your lover! Look here! Do you
really think I am going to run you while he makes love to you?
No fear! I never heard of anything so cool. If he wants you,
let him get you. You're mine. I've paid for you and helped you,
and I'm going to conquer you somehow--if I have to break you to
do it. Hitherto you've seen only my easy, kindly side. But now
confound it! how can you prevent it? I will kiss you."
"You won't!" said Ann Veronica; with the clearest note of
determination.
He seemed to be about to move toward her. She stepped back
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: that the victims in these Mexican ceremonials not infrequently
offered THEMSELVES as a voluntary sacrifice; and Prescott
says[1] that the offering of one's life to the gods was
"sometimes voluntarily embraced, as a most glorious death opening
a sure passage into Paradise."
[1] Conquest of Mexico, Bk. I, ch. 3.
Dr. Frazer describes[1] the far-back Babylonian festival
of the Sacaea in which "a prisoner, condemned to death, was
dressed in the king's robes, seated on the king's throne,
allowed to issue whatever commands he pleased, to eat, drink
and enjoy himself, and even to lie with the king's concubines."
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: frightened.
"Did it hurt?" he asked the little Brown Bear.
"No, of course not," growled the Scarecrow in the
Bear's form; "but I don't like walking on four legs;
it's undignified."
"Consider my humiliation!" chirped the Tin Owl,
trying to settle its tin feathers smoothly with its tin
beak. "And I can't see very well, either. The light
seems to hurt my eyes."
"That's because you are an Owl," said Woot. "I think
you will see better in the dark."
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
