| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: by far the most beautiful of the three. And of
the Prince of Love who redeems and sets her free; and of her
wedding garment the glory and beauty of all nature and of
the heavens! The parables of Jesus are charming in their
way, but they hardly reach this height of inspiration.
Or the world-old myth of Eros and Psyche. How strange
that here again there are three sisters (the three stages of
human evolution), and the latest-born the most beautiful
of the three, and the jealousies and persecutions heaped on
the youngest by the others, and especially by Aphrodite the
goddess of mere sensual charm. And again the coming of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: a man. But Edouard could not read, and the only way he could tell
the nature of the canned provisions was by the pictures on the cans.
If the picture was strange to him, there was no guessing what he
would do with the contents of the can. He was capable of roasting
strawberries, and serving green peas cold for dessert. One day a
can of mullagatawny soup and a can of apricots were handed out to
him simultaneously and without explanations. Edouard solved the
problem by opening both cans and cooking them together. We had a
new soup that day, MULLAGATAWNY AUX APRICOTS. It was not as bad as
it sounds. It tasted somewhat like chutney.
The real reason why food that is cooked over an open fire tastes so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: "To Uma," said Case.
"Uma!" cried the captain. "Wha's he want Uma for? 's he come here
for his health, anyway? Wha' 'n hell's he want Uma for?"
"Dry up, Papa," said Case. "'Tain't you that's to marry her. I
guess you're not her godfather and godmother. I guess Mr.
Wiltshire's going to please himself."
With that he made an excuse to me that he must move about the
marriage, and left me alone with the poor wretch that was his
partner and (to speak truth) his gull. Trade and station belonged
both to Randall; Case and the negro were parasites; they crawled
and fed upon him like the flies, he none the wiser. Indeed, I have
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