| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: prostitute, heavily as she weights society for her support, returning
disease and mental and emotional disintegration for what she consumes, does
not yet so immediately affect the next generation as the kept wife, or kept
mistress, who impresses her effete image indelibly on the generations
succeeding. (It cannot be too often repeated that the woman who merely
bears and brings a child into the world, and then leaves it to be fed and
reared by the hands of another, has performed very much less than half of
the labour of producing adult humans; in such cases it is the nurse and not
the mother who is the most important labourer.)
No man ever yet entered life farther than the length of one navel-cord from
the body of the woman who bore him. It is the woman who is the final
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: praise and
chiefs, be in thy keeping still.
Help us to wealth exceeding good and glorious, abundant, rich
in
children and their progeny.
13 The princely worshippers who send to those who sing thy
praise, O
Agni, guerdon, graced with kine and steeds,-
Lead thou both these and us forward to higher bliss. With brave
men in
the assembly may we speak aloud.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: People, and I also will kill. My lair is empty that was full
when this moon was new, and the Blood Debt is not all paid."
Phao heard his teeth crack on a haunch-bone and grunted
approvingly.
"We shall need those jaws," said he. "Were there cubs with
the dhole?"
"Nay, nay. Red Hunters all: grown dogs of their Pack, heavy and
strong for all that they eat lizards in the Dekkan."
What Won-tolla had said meant that the dhole, the red hunting-
dog of the Dekkan, was moving to kill, and the Pack knew well
that even the tiger will surrender a new kill to the dhole.
The Second Jungle Book |
