| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: For booty lusting,
Motley masked,
Self-hidden, shrouded,
Himself his booty-
HE--of truth the wooer?
Nay! Mere fool! Mere poet!
Just motley speaking,
From mask of fool confusedly shouting,
Circumambling on fabricated word-bridges,
On motley rainbow-arches,
'Twixt the spurious heavenly,
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: of them was dressed as a nun. Quite by accident I saw her face.
It was that of a beautiful girl. I observed she kept aloof from
the others. I suspected a disguise, and, when opportunity afforded,
spoke to her, offered my services. She replied to my poor efforts at
Spanish in fluent English. She had fled in terror from her home,
some place down in Sinaloa. Rebels are active there. Her father
was captured and held for ransom. When the ransom was paid the
rebels killed him.. the leader of these rebels was a bandit named
Rojas. Long before the revolution began he had been feared by people
of class--loved by the peons. Bandits are worshiped by the peons.
All of the famous bandits have robbed the rich and given to the poor.
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: industry and slaughtered in wars. When we refuse to produce
battalions of babies to be exploited; when we declare to the nation;
``Show us that the best possible chance in life is given to every
child now brought into the world, before you cry for more! At present
our children are a glut on the market. You hold infant life cheap.
Help us to make the world a fit place for children. When you have
done this, we will bear you children,--then we shall be true women.''
The new morality will express this power and responsibility on the
part of women.
``With the realization of the moral responsibility of women,'' writes
Havelock Ellis, ``the natural relations of life spring back to their
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