| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: San Francisco--an incident less publicly humiliating to
the family than the sale of the cellar.
After a velvety oyster soup came shad and cucumbers,
then a young broiled turkey with corn fritters,
followed by a canvas-back with currant jelly and a
celery mayonnaise. Mr. Letterblair, who lunched on a
sandwich and tea, dined deliberately and deeply, and
insisted on his guest's doing the same. Finally, when
the closing rites had been accomplished, the cloth was
removed, cigars were lit, and Mr. Letterblair, leaning
back in his chair and pushing the port westward, said,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: jungle Council at the Rock, and then--and then--I have it!"
said Bagheera, leaping up. "Go thou down quickly to the men's
huts in the valley, and take some of the Red Flower which they
grow there, so that when the time comes thou mayest have even a
stronger friend than I or Baloo or those of the Pack that love
thee. Get the Red Flower."
By Red Flower Bagheera meant fire, only no creature in the
jungle will call fire by its proper name. Every beast lives in
deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of describing it.
"The Red Flower?" said Mowgli. "That grows outside their huts
in the twilight. I will get some."
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: We sometimes hear of the awful doom of some of the Russian
convicts in the quarries and mines of Siberia, who are (or were)
chained permanently to their wheelbarrows. It is difficult to
imagine a more dreadful fate: the despair, the disgust, the
deadly loathing of the accursed thing from which there is no
escape day or night--which is the companion not only of the
prisoner's work but of his hours of rest--with which he has to
sleep, to feed, to take his recreation if he has any, and to
fulfil all the offices of nature. Could anything be more
crushing? And yet, and yet . . . is it not true that we, most of
us, in our various ways are chained to our wheelbarrows--is it
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
