| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: for various small appliances. And to rule over these things and order any
erring tendency there might be in some aberrant natures are the most
muscular beings I have seen in the moon, a sort of lunar police, who must
have been trained from their earliest years to give a perfect respect and
obedience to the swollen heads.
"The making of these various sorts of operative must be a very curious and
interesting process. I am very much in the dark about it, but quite
recently I came upon a number of young Selenites confined in jars from
which only the fore-limbs protruded, who were being compressed to become
machine-minders of a special sort. The extended 'hand' in this highly
developed system of technical education is stimulated by irritants and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: dead. Laid upon my table and left alone for twenty-four hours, she
makes not the slightest movement. A prick of which my lens cannot
see the marks, so sharp-pointed are the Epeira's weapons, was
enough, with a little insistence, to kill the powerful animal.
Proportionately, the Rattlesnake, the Horned Viper, the
Trigonocephalus and other ill-famed serpents produce less
paralysing effects upon their victims.
And these Epeirae, so terrible to insects, I am able to handle
without any fear. My skin does not suit them. If I persuaded them
to bite me, what would happen to me? Hardly anything. We have
more cause to dread the sting of a nettle than the dagger which is
The Life of the Spider |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: was something about it that resembled a parrot. The likenesses
appeared even more striking on a coloured picture by Espinal,
representing the baptism of our Saviour. With his scarlet wings and
emerald body, it was really the image of Loulou. Having bought the
picture, she hung it near the one of the Comte d'Artois so that she
could take them in at one glance.
They associated in her mind, the parrot becoming sanctified through
the neighbourhood of the Holy Ghost, and the latter becoming more
lifelike in her eyes, and more comprehensible. In all probability the
Father had never chosen as messenger a dove, as the latter has no
voice, but rather one of Loulou's ancestors. And Felicite said her
A Simple Soul |
