| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Aunt Selina's face was a curious study. Then she raised herself
on her elbow, and, taking a flat chamois-skin bag from under her
pillow, held it out.
"My cameo breastpin," she said solemnly; "my cuff-buttons with
gold rims and storks painted on china in the middle; my watch,
that has put me to bed and got me up for forty years, and my
money--five hundred and ten dollars and forty cents!--taken with
the doors locked under my nose." Which was ambiguous, but
forcible.
"But, good gracious, Miss Car--Aunt Selina!" I exclaimed, "you
don't think Betty Mercer took those things?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: Yes, he replied.
And philosophy is the acquisition of knowledge?
Yes, he said.
And what knowledge ought we to acquire? May we not answer with absolute
truth--A knowledge which will do us good?
Certainly, he said.
And should we be any the better if we went about having a knowledge of the
places where most gold was hidden in the earth?
Perhaps we should, he said.
But have we not already proved, I said, that we should be none the better
off, even if without trouble and digging all the gold which there is in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: The story goes that this chap has been bitten
so many times that the virus no longer has any
effect on him. Even that most poisonous of all
reptiles, the Gila monster, has no terrors for
him. He swims along the shore where venomous
reptiles most abound, and fearlessly
attacks any and all that promise any income to
his employer.
In a very rare book by General Sir Arthur
Thurlow Cunynghame, entitled, My Command
in South Africa, 1880, I find the following:
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
