| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: had all the marks of a Sunday-school.
CHAPTER IV.
WELL, three or four months run along, and it was
well into the winter now. I had been to school
most all the time and could spell and read and write
just a little, and could say the multiplication table up
to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I
could ever get any further than that if I was to live
forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, any-
way.
At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: would be as valuable dead as alive."
"What I seem to feel," went on Bastin, "is that I have work to
my hand here. Also, the locum tenens at Fulcombe no doubt runs
the parish as well as I could. Indeed I consider him a better man
for the place than I am. That old Oro is a tough proposition, but
I do not despair of him yet, and besides him there is the
Glittering Lady, a most open-minded person, whom I have not yet
had any real opportunity of approaching in a spiritual sense.
Then there are all these natives who cannot learn without a
teacher. So on the whole I think I would rather stay where I am
until Providence points out some other path."
When the World Shook |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: feathers like yours!" implored Iktomi, tired now of playing the
brave in beaded buckskins. The peacock then spoke to Iktomi: "I
have a magic power. My touch will change you in a moment into the
most beautiful peacock if you can keep one condition."
"Yes! yes!" shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his
lips with his palm, which caused his voice to vibrate in a peculiar
fashion. "Yes! yes! I could keep ten conditions if only you would
change me into a bird with long, bright tail feathers. Oh, I am so
ugly! I am so tired of being myself! Change me! Do!"
Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce
moving them, he sailed slowly down upon the ground. Right beside
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