| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: proof of his sanity was continued when he took up the whispering
again.
"It would never do for me to come to life again."
It was something that a ghost might have said. But what he was
alluding to was his old captain's reluctant admission of the theory
of suicide. It would obviously serve his turn - if I had
understood at all the view which seemed to govern the unalterable
purpose of his action.
"You must maroon me as soon as ever you can get amongst these
islands off the Cambodje shore," he went on.
"Maroon you! We are not living in a boy's adventure tale," I
'Twixt Land & Sea |
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: could not be so fiendishly cruel!"
"It is not I that am cruel, but you," he returned,
"for you permit a paltry sum of money to stand between
your baby and immunity from suffering."
The end of it was that Jane Clayton wrote out a cheque
of large denomination and handed it to Nikolas Rokoff,
who left her cabin with a grin of satisfaction upon his lips.
The following day the hatch was removed from Tarzan's cell,
and as he looked up he saw Paulvitch's head framed in
the square of light above him.
"Come up," commanded the Russian. "But bear in mind
The Beasts of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in he United States.
This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by
Douglas B. Killings ([email protected]), November, 1996.
PREPARER'S NOTE:
Readers of this work will note some startling similarities
between the story of Ioasaph and the traditional Tale of Buddha.
The work seems to be a retelling of the Buddha Legend from within
a Christian context, with the singular difference that the
"Buddha" in this tale reaches enlightenment through the love of
Jesus Christ.
The popularity of the Greek version of this story is attested to
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