| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: more singing, all listened now; and again came a death-screech
and again a crow.
No one spoke except Slightly. "Three," he said.
Hook rallied his dogs with a gesture. "'S'death and odds
fish," he thundered, "who is to bring me that doodle-doo?"
"Wait till Cecco comes out," growled Starkey, and the others took
up the cry.
"I think I heard you volunteer, Starkey," said Hook, purring
again.
"No, by thunder!" Starkey cried.
"My hook thinks you did," said Hook, crossing to him. "I
Peter Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: destination lay and the business that awaited the night prowler there.
So it was that I remained hidden until after Thurid had
disappeared over the edge of the steep bank beside the sea a
quarter of a mile away. Then, with Woola following, I hastened
across the open after the black dator.
The quiet of the tomb lay upon the mysterious valley of death,
crouching deep in its warm nest within the sunken area at the south
pole of the dying planet. In the far distance the Golden Cliffs
raised their mighty barrier faces far into the starlit heavens,
The Warlord of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: recorded a past Golden Age when life had been gracious
in communal fraternity and joyful in peace, when human
beings and animals spoke the same language, when death
had followed on sleep, without old age or disease, and
after death men had moved as good daimones or genii over
the lands. Pindar, three hundred years after Hesiod, had
confirmed the existence of the Islands of the Blest, where
the good led a blameless, tearless, life. Plato the same,[1]
with further references to the fabled island of Atlantis;
the Egyptians believed in a former golden age under
the god R to which they looked back with regret and
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
