| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: had made him infamous throughout the island, people began to call him
the Red Rogue of Dawna.
He had gathered around him a number of savage barbarians, as wicked
and quarrelsome as himself, and so none dared to interfere with him,
or even to meet him, if it were possible to avoid it.
This same Red Rogue it was who had drawn the good Baron Merd into a
quarrel and afterward slain the old knight and his followers,
destroyed his castle, and carried his little daughter Seseley and her
girl friends, Berna and Helda, into captivity, shutting them up in his
own gloomy castle.
The Red Rogue thought he had done a very clever thing, and had no fear
The Enchanted Island of Yew |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: great hall where dozens of servants were serving a fine feast.
But only one man sat at table--a young man with a face so
sorrowful that it made a body's heart ache to look upon him. "Can
you play good music, piper?" said he.
"Yes," said the piper, "that I can, for I know a tune that can
cure sorrow. But before I blow my pipe I and my friend here must
have something to eat and drink, for one cannot play well with an
empty stomach."
"So be it," said the young man; "sit down with me and eat and
drink."
So the two did without second bidding, and such food and drink
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: the other quickly follows. To think of the place in which we have last
seen a thing is often the best way of recalling it to the mind. Hence
memory is dependent on association. The act of recollection may be
compared to the sight of an object at a great distance which we have
previously seen near and seek to bring near to us in thought. Memory is to
sense as dreaming is to waking; and like dreaming has a wayward and
uncertain power of recalling impressions from the past.
Thus begins the passage from the outward to the inward sense. But as yet
there is no conception of a universal--the mind only remembers the
individual object or objects, and is always attaching to them some colour
or association of sense. The power of recollection seems to depend on the
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