| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: should now and then "talk over their heads," as the saying is, and
make them feel how ignorant they are, and how many solemn and
earnest questions there are in the world on which they must make
up their minds some day, though not yet. But now we will talk
about the hay: or rather do you and the rest go and play in the
hay and gather it up, build forts of it, storm them, pull them
down, build them up again, shout, laugh, and scream till you are
hot and tired. You will please Madam How thereby, and Lady Why
likewise.
How?
Because Madam How naturally wants her work to succeed, and she is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: my will may be found between the first leaves of our Holy Book. Get up,
Klaus, and guide me to your master," and he administered a somewhat
vicious kick to the gorged and prostrate Hottentot.
Now Marie, who all this while had stood silent, touched me on the
shoulder and said:
"Allan, is it well that my father should go alone? Will you not
accompany him?"
"Of course," I answered cheerfully; "on such a business there should be
two, and some Kaffirs also to carry the man, if he still lives."
Now for the end of the story. As the Hottentot Klaus was too exhausted
to move that night, it was arranged that we should start at dawn.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: sincere, you can take up anything and get good out of it.
The loveliest man talked to us last night -- to our
Little Group of Advanced Thinkers, you know.
He said the curse of the age and the country was
superficiality. People aren't thorough, you know.
He said the curse of the age and the country was
superficiality. People aren't thorough, you know.
I've noticed that myself and I agree with him.
If one is going to take things up and show a serious
interest in them one must not limit one's self to a
few phases.
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