| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: and pouring out great floods of mud mixed with dead fish; for
there are underground lakes among those volcanos which swarm with
little fish which never see the light.
But most volcanos as I say, are, or have been, the shape of the
one which you see here. This is Cotopaxi, in Quito, more than
19,000 feet in height. All those sloping sides are made of
cinders and ashes, braced together, I suppose, by bars of solid
lava-stone inside, which prevent the whole from crumbling down.
The upper part, you see, is white with snow, as far down as a line
which is 15,000 feet above the sea; for the mountain is in the
tropics, close to the equator, and the snow will not lie in that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: naturally are, by a sense of their importance, with dolls and toys and
Punch-and-Judys, as in the days of our unsophisticated innocence!
Nonsense! Boys must have ponies and cigarettes, and the reading of
novelettes; and girls, the delight of playing hostess, giving
afternoon dances, and evening parties at which the real Guignol of the
Champs Elysees and Robert Houdin appear,--the entertainment being
announced on the invitation cards. Sometimes, as now in the case of
Nais de l'Estorade, these little sovereigns obtain permission to give
a ball in /grown-up/ style,--so much so, that policemen are stationed
about the doors, and Delisle, Nattier, and Prevost provide the toilets
and the decorations.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: clearly. For specific and often most interesting details we
refer the reader to our various case histories.
Sex. Our findings show only 1 male out of 19 mentally normal
cases. A general observation by practical students of conduct,
namely, that females tend to deviate from the truth more readily
than males, is more than thoroughly borne out here. There are
certainly several social and psychological reasons for this, but
they need not be gone into here. If our figures seem not to be
corroborated by the findings of previous students it is only
because the figures are not comparable-- the latter have mixed
the mentally abnormal with the pathological liars proper. It
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