| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: could not understand them. In the mean time I was not able to
forbear groaning and shedding tears, and turning my head towards
my sides; letting him know, as well as I could, how cruelly I was
hurt by the pressure of his thumb and finger. He seemed to
apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet of his coat, he
put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to his
master, who was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had
first seen in the field.
The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an
account of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a
small straw, about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith
Gulliver's Travels |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: hitter reached his base on another error by an
infielder. Here the bases were crowded, and the
situation had become critical all in a moment.
Wayne believed the infield would go to pieces, and
lose the game, then and there, if another hit went
to short or third.
``Steady up, boys,'' called Wayne, and beckoned
for his catcher.
``Burns, it's up to you and me,'' he said, in a
low tone. ``I've got to fan the rest of these
hitters. You're doing splendidly. Now, watch close
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: legitimate predecessors of the early Christian hermits and monks.
But while pre-eminent for sanctity of life, they heaped ridicule
upon the entire sacrificial service of the Temple, despised the
Pharisees as hypocrites, and insisted upon charity toward all men
instead of the old Jewish exclusiveness.
It was once a favourite theory that both John the Baptist and
Jesus were members of the Essenian brotherhood; but that theory
is now generally abandoned. Whatever may have been the case with
John, who is said to have lived like an anchorite in the desert,
there seems to have been but little practical Essenism in Jesus,
who is almost uniformly represented as cheerful and social in
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
