| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: to her husband, "I knew--I said that he was no sorcerer. He is
my son--my son!"
"Son or sorcerer, what good will that do us?" the man answered.
"We be as dead already."
"Yonder is the road to the Jungle"--Mowgli pointed through the
window. "Your hands and feet are free. Go now."
"We do not know the Jungle, my son, as--as thou knowest," Messua
began. "I do not think that I could walk far."
"And the men and women would he upon our backs and drag us here
again," said the husband.
"H'm!" said Mowgli, and he tickled the palm of his hand with the
The Second Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The lizards and the rats," replied An-Tak. "The lizards are not
so bad; but the rats are foul to taste. However, I must eat them
or they would eat me, and they are better than nothing; but of
late they do not come so often, and I have not had a lizard for
a long time. I shall eat though," he mumbled. "I shall eat now,
for you cannot remain awake forever." He laughed, a cackling, dry
laugh. "When you sleep, An-Tak will eat."
It was horrible. Bradley shuddered. For a long time each sat
in silence. The Englishman could guess why the other made no
sound--he awaited the moment that sleep should overcome his victim.
In the long silence there was born upon Bradley's ears a faint,
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
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