| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: Besides, I wasn't crying."
"It has come off?"
"Yes."
Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled,
and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. "How awful!" she said,
but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been
trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like a boy!
Fortunately she knew at once what to do. "It must be sewn on,"
she said, just a little patronisingly.
"What's sewn?" he asked.
"You're dreadfully ignorant."
Peter Pan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: of the great dome till we reached the gates. Here I glanced back
and perceived that Oro, looking unutterably small in that
vastness, looking like a dead man, still lay outstretched before
the stern-faced, unanswering Effigy which, with all his wisdom, he
believed to be living and divine. Perhaps once it was, but if
so its star had set for ever, like those of Amon, Jupiter and
Baal, and he was its last worshipper.
Now we were safe, but still we sped on till we reached the
portico of our sleeping place. Then Yva turned and spoke.
"It is horrible," she said, "and my soul sickens. Oh, I thank
the Strength which made it that I have no desire to rule the
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: that makes of them such wonderful landscape gardeners and such
wonder-full landscape gazers shows itself unmistakably in their
paintings.
The current impression that Japanese pictorial ambition, and
consequent skill, is confined to the representation of birds and
flowers, though entirely erroneous as it stands, has a grain of
truth behind it. This idea is due to the attitude of the foreign
observers, and was in fact a tribute to Japanese technique rather
than an appreciation of Far Eastern artistic feeling. The truth is,
the foreigners brought to the subject their own Western criteria of
merit, and judged everything by these standards. Such works
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