| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: itself, fastening the angular projections, one by one, with strips
of gummed paper. The whole stands on three short pillars and gives
a very fair imitation of the underrock shelter in the form of a
small dolmen. Throughout this operation, if you are careful to
avoid shocks and jolts, the Spider remains indoors. Finally, each
apparatus is placed under a wire-gauze, bell-shaped cage, which
stands in a dish filled with sand.
We can have an answer by the next morning. If, among the cabins
swung from the ceilings of the deal or cardboard dolmens, there be
one that is all dilapidated, that was seriously knocked out of
shape at the time of removal, the Spider abandons it during the
The Life of the Spider |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: and also came with the current of good breeze.
Of course he dared no stop, for there was no place to land; so he
calmly continued his journey.
"It may be I've missed Cuba," he thought; "but I can not change my
course now, for if I did I might get lost, and never be able to find
land again. If I keep on as I am I shall be sure to reach land of
some sort, in time, and when I wish to return home I can set the indicator
to the northwest and that will take me directly back to Boston."
This was good reasoning, but the rash youth had no idea he was
speeding over the ocean, or that he was destined to arrive shortly at
the barbarous island of Brava, off the coast of Africa. Yet such was
The Master Key |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: the thought of mutability. Under this impression the landowner
and the tenant himself are instinctively averse to protracted
terms of obligation; they are afraid of being tied up to-morrow
by the contract which benefits them today. They have vague
anticipations of some sudden and unforeseen change in their
conditions; they mistrust themselves; they fear lest their taste
should change, and lest they should lament that they cannot rid
themselves of what they coveted; nor are such fears unfounded,
for in democratic ages that which is most fluctuating amidst the
fluctuation of all around is the heart of man.
Chapter VII: Influence Of Democracy On Wages
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