| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tent-boys, gun-bearers, askari, and even his headman,
would have turned back into the bush, leaving him to
the mercy of the merciless jungle.
M'ganwazam denied that there had been any white woman
or child with the party of whites; but even as he spoke Tarzan
was convinced that he lied. Several times the ape-man approached
the subject from different angles, but never was he successful
in surprising the wily cannibal into a direct contradiction of
his original statement that there had been no women or children
with the party.
Tarzan demanded food of the chief, and after considerable haggling
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: trunks were of a dark red colour and the leaves were of pale ulfire.
My father kept stopping to think. If left uninterrupted, he would
remain for half a day in deep abstraction. My mother came out of
Poolingdred, and was of a different stamp. She was beautiful,
generous, and charming - but also active. She kept urging him on.
This led to many disputes between them, which made me miserable. On
the fourth day we passed through a part of the forest which bordered
on the Sinking Sea. This sea is full of pouches of water that will
not bear a man's weight, and as these light parts don't differ in
appearance from the rest, it is dangerous to cross. My father
pointed out a dim outline on the horizon, and told me it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: What we chiefly notice so far are two points; on the
one hand the general similarity of these stories with that
of Jesus Christ; on the other their analogy with the yearly
phenomena of Nature as illustrated by the course of the
Sun in heaven and the changes of Vegetation on the earth.
(1) The similarity of these ancient pagan legends and
beliefs with Christian traditions was indeed so great that
it excited the attention and the undisguised wrath of the
early Christian fathers. They felt no doubt about the similarity,
but not knowing how to explain it fell back upon the
innocent theory that the Devil--in order to confound the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
