| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: furtively; the short one, and the one in light clothes, and the one in
dark.
"I cannot help them now!" she cried, and sank down on the ground, with her
little hands clasped before her.
...
"Awake, awake!" said the farmer's wife; "I hear a strange noise; something
calling, calling, calling!"
The man rose, and went to the window.
"I hear it also," he said; "surely some jackal's at the sheep. I will load
my gun and go and see."
"It sounds to me like the cry of no jackal," said the woman; and when he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: therns themselves have been lured by the First Born to an
equally horrid fate," I suggested. "It would be a stern and
awful retribution, Phaidor; but a just one."
"I cannot believe it," she said.
"We shall see," I answered, and then we fell silent again for we
were rapidly approaching the black mountains, which in some
indefinable way seemed linked with the answer to our problem.
As we neared the dark, truncated cone the vessel's speed was
diminished until we barely moved. Then we topped the crest
of the mountain and below us I saw yawning the mouth of a
huge circular well, the bottom of which was lost in inky blackness.
The Gods of Mars |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: performer. It was this kind of faith, no doubt, which caused
the discomfiture of Jacques Aymar on his visit to Paris,[25]
and which has in late years prevented persons from obtaining
the handsome prize offered by the French Academy for the first
authentic case of clairvoyance.
[24] For an admirable example of scientific self-analysis
tracing one of these illusions to its psychological sources,
see the account of Dr. Lazarus, in Taine, De l'Intelligence,
Vol. I. pp. 121-125.
[25] See the story of Aymar in Baring-Gould, Curious Myths,
Vol. I. pp. 57-77. The learned author attributes the
Myths and Myth-Makers |
