| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: elements may combine to build up in course of time a single
enormous superstition, and we see how curiously fact and fancy
have co-operated in keeping the superstition from falling. In
the first place the worship of dead ancestors with wolf totems
originated the notion of the transformation of men into divine
or superhuman wolves; and this notion was confirmed by the
ambiguous explanation of the storm-wind as the rushing of a
troop of dead men's souls or as the howling of wolf-like
monsters. Mediaeval Christianity retained these conceptions,
merely changing the superhuman wolves into evil demons; and
finally the occurrence of cases of Berserker madness and
Myths and Myth-Makers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: sprung up with such force that it upset the boat, which
instantly filled with water. Mr. Macurich, with much
exertion, succeeded in getting hold of the boat's gunwale,
still above the surface of the water, and by this means was
saved; but the young man Scott was unfortunately drowned. He
had in all probability been struck about the head by the ring
of the buoy, for although surrounded with the oars and the
thwarts of the boat which floated near him, yet he seemed
entirely to want the power of availing himself of such
assistance, and appeared to be quite insensible, while Pool,
the master of the SMEATON, called loudly to him; and before
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told,
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST
When spring-time flushes the desert grass,
WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI
The wreath of banquet overnight lay withered on the neck,
THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE
This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,
Verses 1889-1896 |
