| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: at all! Under those circumstances it was perhaps wise,
wherever there was the smallest SUSPICION of danger or
ill-luck, to create a hard and fast TABOO--just as we tell
our children ON NO ACCOUNT to walk under a ladder (thereby
creating a superstition in their minds), partly because it
would take too long to explain all about the real dangers
of paint-pots and other things, and partly because for the
children themselves it seems simpler to have a fixed and
inviolable law than to argue over every case that occurs.
The priests and elders among early folk no doubt took the
line of FORBIDDAL of activities, as safer and simpler, even if
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: doom or her salvation--who could tell which?
Halfway through the entrance the wave dropped the ship,
and with a mighty crash that threw Barbara Harding to her
feet the vessel struck full amidships upon a sunken reef. Like
a thing of glass she broke in two with the terrific impact, and
in another instant the waters about her were filled with
screaming men.
Barbara Harding felt herself hurtled from the deck as
though shot from a catapult. The swirling waters engulfed her.
She knew that her end had come, only the most powerful of
swimmers might hope to win through that lashing hell of
The Mucker |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: w-when you w-went West you were c-camping out," chattered Carley. "Believe
me, he said something."
The fact was Carley had never camped out. Her set played golf, rode
horseback, motored and house-boated, but they had never gone in for
uncomfortable trips. The camps and hotels in the Adirondacks were as warm
and luxurious as Carley's own home. Carley now missed many things. And
assuredly her flesh was weak. It cost her effort of will and real pain to
finish lacing her boots. As she had made an engagement with Glenn to visit
his cabin, she had donned an outdoor suit. She wondered if the cold had
anything to do with the perceptible diminishing of the sound of the
waterfall. Perhaps some of the water had frozen, like her fingers.
The Call of the Canyon |
