| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: been like two patients in the same hospital ward--each finding comfort in
the sickness of the other--sweet foundation for a love episode! Misfortune
had knocked their heads together: they had looked at each other, stunned
with the conflict and sympathised..."I wish I could step outside the whole
affair and just judge it--then I'd find a way out. I certainly was in love
with Casimir...Oh, be sincere for once." She flopped down on the bed and
hid her face in the pillow. "I was not in love. I wanted somebody to look
after me--and keep me until my work began to sell--and he kept bothers with
other men away. And what would have happened if he hadn't come along? I
would have spent my wretched little pittance, and then--Yes, that was what
decided me, thinking about that 'then.' He was the only solution. And I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his hand, and read it. At first it made little impression on
his sorrow-numbed senses, but finally the full purport of the
hideous plot of revenge unfolded itself before his imagination.
"This will explain to you" [the note read] "the exact nature
of my intentions relative to your offspring and to you.
"You were born an ape. You lived naked in the jungles--
to your own we have returned you; but your son shall rise a
step above his sire. It is the immutable law of evolution.
"The father was a beast, but the son shall be a man--he
shall take the next ascending step in the scale of progress.
He shall be no naked beast of the jungle, but shall wear a
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Drove him to labour. Out of dung and horns
Dropped in the mire he made a monstrous God,
Abhorrent, shapeless, crowned with plantain tufts,
And when the cattle lowed at twilight-time,
He dreamed it was the clamour of lost crowds,
And howled among the beasts: "~Thus Gods are made,
And whoso makes them otherwise shall die.~"
Thereat the cattle bellowed. . . . Then he died.
Yet at the last he came to Paradise,
And found his own four Gods, and that he wrote;
Verses 1889-1896 |
