| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: remark, but after a pause said, "So you've been trying to find Surtur
on your own account, during the intervals between killing and
fondling?"
"What was that drumming?" demanded Maskull.
"You needn't look so important. We know you had your ear to the
keyhole. But you could join the assembly, the music was not playing
for you, my friend."
Maskull smiled rather bitterly. "At all events, I listen through no
more keyholes. I have finished with life. I belong to nobody and
nothing any more, from this time forward."
"Brave Words, brave words! We shall see. Perhaps Crystalman will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother,
do not correct him with mud--never, on any account, throw mud at him,
because it will spoil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little,
for then you obtain desirable results. You secure his immediate
attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same time
your hot water will have a tendency to move impurities from his person,
and possibly the skin, in spots.
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply
that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate
that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly
in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: distinguishes them (like their harsh and uncouth language) from
their brother islanders in the east.
PART IV: THE GILBERTS - APEMAMA
CHAPTER I - THE KING OF APEMAMA: THE ROYAL TRADER
THERE is one great personage in the Gilberts: Tembinok' of
Apemama: solely conspicuous, the hero of song, the butt of gossip.
Through the rest of the group the kings are slain or fallen in
tutelage: Tembinok' alone remains, the last tyrant, the last erect
vestige of a dead society. The white man is everywhere else,
building his houses, drinking his gin, getting in and out of
trouble with the weak native governments. There is only one white
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