| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: is, sign the release and the sanction.
"Now let's don't have any heroics about it. You have
the proposition. Now I am going to sleep. In the meantime
you may think it over. If the papers are not ready when it
comes time for us to leave, and from the way I feel now I
rather think I shall be ready to mount a horse by morning,
I shall ride back to Lustadt as king of Lutha, and I shall
marry her highness into the bargain, and you may go hang!
"How the devil you will earn a living with that king job
taken away from you I don't know. You're a long way from
New York, and in the present state of carnage in Europe
The Mad King |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: spying the inaccuracy. For him, for Mr. Tati Salmon,
hereditary high chief of the Tevas, the note is solely
written: a small attention from a clansman to his chief.
Note 12, "LET THE PIGS BE TAPU." It is impossible to explain
TAPU in a note; we have it as an English word, taboo.
Suffice it, that a thing which was TAPU must not be touched,
nor a place that was TAPU visited.
Note 13, "FISH, THE FOOD OF DESIRE." There is a special word
in the Tahitian language to signify HUNGERING AFTER FISH. I
may remark that here is one of my chief difficulties about
the whole story. How did king, commons, women, and all come
Ballads |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: And rest thy restless bones upon the same!
Unbind Ixion, cruel Rhadamanth,
And lay proud Humber on the whirling wheel.
Back will I post to hell mouth Taenarus,
And pass Cocitus, to the Elysian fields,
And tell my father Brutus of these news.
[Exit.]
ACT V. PROLOGUE.
[Enter Ate as before. Jason, leading Creon's
daughter. Medea, following, hath a garland in
her hand, and putting it on Creon's daughter's
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