| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: dealt now. Mowgli, hast thou anything to say?"
"Nothing. I did wrong. Baloo and thou are wounded. It is
just."
Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther's
point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs),
but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating
as you could wish to avoid. When it was all over Mowgli sneezed,
and picked himself up without a word.
"Now," said Bagheera, "jump on my back, Little Brother, and we
will go home."
One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: yourself the question at last. THAT will happen which cannot be
avoided; and perhaps you know best what it is."--"No. I am still
asking myself what he will do."--"Ah, that is not for me to
know," declared d'Alcacer. "I can't tell you what he will do, but
I know what will happen to him."--"To him, you say! To him!" she
cried.--"He will break his heart," said d'Alcacer, distinctly,
bending a little over the chair with a slight gasp at his own
audacity--and waited.
"Croyez-vous?" came at last from Mrs. Travers in an accent so
coldly languid that d'Alcacer felt a shudder run down his spine.
Was it possible that she was that kind of woman, he asked
The Rescue |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: The earth affords us bowers:
Then care away, etc.
The cuckow and the nightingale
Full merrily do sing,
Heigh trolollie lollie foe, etc.
And with their pleasant roundelays
Bid welcome to the spring:
Then care away, etc.
This is not half the happiness
The countryman enjoys
Heigh trolollie lollie foe, etc.,
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