| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: cut all the edible parts from the rhino and carry them home;
but already they were pretty well weighted down with the spoils
of the chase, and only the fact that they are particularly fond
of rhino-meat caused them to do so.
They left the hide on the pieces they selected, as they use it
for sandals, shield-covers, the hilts of their knives and
various other purposes where tough hide is desirable. I was
much interested in their shields, especially after I saw one
used in defense against the attack of a saber-tooth tiger.
The huge creature had charged us without warning from a clump of
dense bushes where it was lying up after eating. It was met
The People That Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: long."
"What is this new folly, little dreamer of dreams?" said
Bagheera.
"Yes, and throw branches and dirt at old Baloo," Mowgli went
on. "They have promised me this. Ah!"
"Whoof!" Baloo's big paw scooped Mowgli off Bagheera's back,
and as the boy lay between the big fore-paws he could see the Bear
was angry.
"Mowgli," said Baloo, "thou hast been talking with the
Bandar-log--the Monkey People."
Mowgli looked at Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too,
The Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: through it all like one in a dream. Lord George Beaumont was one
of his squires of honor; the other, by way of a fitting
complement to the courage of the chivalrous lad, was the Sieur de
la Montaigne, his opponent soon to be. They were well versed in
everything relating to knightcraft, and Myles followed all their
directions with passive obedience. Then Sir James Lee and the
Comte de Vermoise administered the ceremony of the Bath, the old
knight examining him in the laws of chivalry.
It occurs perhaps once or twice in one's lifetime that one passes
through great happenings--sometimes of joy, sometimes of dreadful
bitterness--in just such a dazed state as Myles passed through
Men of Iron |
