| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: billy-goat!"
Instantly goats, old man, and all were gone like a flash. Down
fell the fisherman through the empty sky, whirling over and over
and around and around like a frog. He held tightly to his net,
but away flew his fur cap, the golden money falling in a shower
like sparks of yellow light. Down he fell and down he fell, until
his head spun like a top.
By good-luck his house was just below, with its thatch of soft
rushes. Into the very middle of it he tumbled, and right through
the thatch--bump!--into the room below.
The good wife was in bed, snoring away for dear life; but such a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: large fire being lighted near them, and hearing the awful sound
of the bull-roarers, while they were told that Dhuramoolan was
about to burn them; the legend being that Dhuramoolan, a powerful
being, whose voice sounded like thunder, would take the boys into
the bush and instruct them in all the laws, traditions and
customs of the community. So he pretended that he always killed
the boys, cut them up, and burnt them to ashes, after which he
moulded the ashes into human shape, and restored them to life as
new beings. (See R. H. Matthews, "The Wiradthuri tribes," Journal
Anthrop. Inst., vol. xxv, 1896, pp. 297 sq.)
[2] See Catlin's North-American Indians, vol. i, for initiations
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: under her fingers Lingard's forearm in its white sleeve was as
steady as a limb of marble. Without looking at him she seemed to
feel that with one movement he could crush that nervous figure in
which lived the breath of the great desert haunted by his nomad,
camel-riding ancestors.--"Power is in the hand of God," he said,
all animation dying out of his face, and paused to wait for
Lingard's "Very true," then continued with a fine smile, "but He
apportions it according to His will for His own purposes, even to
those that are not of the Faith."
"Such being the will of God you should harbour no bitterness
against them in your heart."
The Rescue |
