| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: WHO SAYS "SH-SH-SH!" OUTSIDE MY DOOR
CONTENTS
I THE SMASH-UP
II MOSTLY EGGS
III GOOD As NEW
IV DAWN DEVELOPS A HEIMWEH
V THE ABSURD BECOMES SERIOUS
VI STEEPED IN GERMAN
VII BLACKIE'S PHILOSOPHY
VIII KAFFEE AND KAFFEEKUCHEN
IX THE LADY FROM VIENNA
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: as between ourselves, that should the conspiracy come to light,
nothing on earth can save him, and in his fall he will involve others
rather then be left unaccompanied in the lurch, and not see the guilt
shared. How is it that when I left you recently you were in a better
frame of mind than you are now? I beg of you not to trifle with the
matter. Ah me! what boots that wealth for which men dispute and cut
one another's throats? Do they think that it is possible to prosper in
this world without thinking of the world to come? Believe me when I
say that, until a man shall have renounced all that leads humanity to
contend without giving a thought to the ordering of spiritual wealth,
he will never set his temporal goods either upon a satisfactory
Dead Souls |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: boldened to question him, and so she asked him what he in-
tended doing after the hut and boma were completed.
"I am going to the west coast where I was born," replied
Tarzan. "I do not know when. I have all my life before me
and in the jungle there is no reason for haste. We are not
forever running as fast as we can from one place to another
as are you of the outer world. When I have been here long
enough I will go on toward the west, but first I must see that
you have a safe place in which to sleep, and that you have
learned how to provide yourself with necessaries. That will
take time."
Tarzan the Untamed |
