| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: "At the first town
Her lover dressed her,"
Etc., etc.
As Barbette reached this verse of the song, where Pille-Miche had
begun it, she was entering the courtyard of her home; her tongue
suddenly stiffened, she stood still, and a great cry, quickly
repressed, came from her gaping lips.
"What is it, mother?" said the child.
"Walk alone," she cried, pulling her hand away and pushing him
roughly; "you have neither father nor mother."
The child, who was rubbing his shoulder and weeping, suddenly caught
The Chouans |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: all the neighbours came around him, and he told them how he used
to come and visit his gold. "Did you ever take any of it out?"
asked one of them.
"Nay," said he, "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbour; "it
will do you just as much good."
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
The Fox and the Mosquitoes
A Fox after crossing a river got its tail entangled in a bush,
and could not move. A number of Mosquitoes seeing its plight
settled upon it and enjoyed a good meal undisturbed by its tail.
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: him. For it had struck into his heart and mind. It had paralyzed him
with the revelation it brought; for Hare now knew as he had never known
anything before, that he would forestall August Naab, avenge the death of
Dave, and kill the rustler Holderness. Through blinding shock he passed
slowly into cold acceptance of his heritage from the desert.
The two long years of his desert training were as an open page to Hare's
unveiled eyes. The life he owed to August Naab, the strength built up by
the old man's knowledge of the healing power of plateau and range--these
lay in a long curve between the day Naab had lifted him out of the White
Sage trail and this day of the Mormon's extremity. A long curve with
Holderness's insulting blow at the beginning, his murder of a beloved
The Heritage of the Desert |
