| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: pleasure, and the play of your senses upon the various objects and
shows of Nature quickens and stimulates your spirit, your relation
to the world and to yourself is what it should be,--simple, and
direct, and wholesome."--JOHN BURROUGHS: Pepacton.
The right to the name of Ampersand, like the territory of Gaul in
those Commentaries which Julius Caesar wrote for the punishment of
schoolboys, is divided into three parts. It belongs to a mountain,
and a lake, and a little river.
The mountain stands in the heart of the Adirondack country, just
near enough to the thoroughfare of travel for thousands of people
to see it every year, and just far enough from the beaten track to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: that included the lifeboat station, the Golden Gate, the ocean
beach beyond the old fort, the green, bare, flower-starred hills
and downs, and the smooth levels of the golf links. Blix had been
busy with the last details of her packing, and they did not get
started until toward two in the afternoon.
"Strike me!" exclaimed Captain Jack, as Blix informed him that she
had come to say good-by. "Why, ain't this very sudden-like, Miss
Bessemer? Hey, Kitty, come in here. Here's Miss Bessemer come to
say good-by; going to New York to-morrow."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: "That depends on what you mean by miracle. Science shows us all
kinds of wonders which our great grandfathers would have called
miracles, but these are nothing but laws that we are beginning to
understand. Give me an instance."
"Well," I replied at hazard, "if you were assured by someone
that a man could live for a thousand years?"
"I should tell him that he was a fool or a liar, that is all.
It is impossible."
"Or that the same identity, spirit, animating principle--call
it what you will--can flit from body to body, say in successive
ages? Or that the dead can communicate with the living?"
When the World Shook |
