| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: belief. The dead retain their taste for a fish diet, enter
into copartnery with living fishers, and haunt the reef and
the lagoon. The conclusion attributed to the nameless lady
of the legend would be reached to-day, under the like
circumstances, by ninety per cent of Polynesians: and here I
probably understate by one-tenth.
THE FEAST OF FAMINE
MARQUESAN MANNERS
I. THE PRIEST'S VIGIL
IN all the land of the tribe was neither fish nor fruit,
And the deepest pit of popoi stood empty to the foot. (1)
Ballads |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can
cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as
the stronger. You begin." So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and
the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller.
But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his
cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair.
Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the
traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on.
Kindness effects more than severity.
Hercules and the Waggoner
A Waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: self that the world was the shape of a plate, and flat.
I used to go up on the hill, and take a look around
and prove it for myself, because I reckon the best way
to get a sure thing on a fact is to go and examine for
yourself, and not take anybody's say-so. But I had to
give in now that the widder was right. That is, she
was right as to the rest of the world, but she warn't
right about the part our village is in; that part is the
shape of a plate, and flat, I take my oath!
The professor had been quiet all this time, as if he
was asleep; but he broke loose now, and he was mighty
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