| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: woman's ingratitude was too deep for words, and he only stared at
her in injured silence. But his reflections were quickly upset
when Alfred called from the next room, to inquire again about
Baby.
"Alfred's here!" whispered Jimmy, beginning to realise the
meaning of the women's mysterious behaviour.
"Sh! sh!" said Aggie again to Jimmy, and Zoie flew toward the
bed, almost vaulting over the footboard in her hurry to get
beneath the covers.
For the present Alfred did not disturb them further. Apparently
he was still occupied with his shaving, but just as Jimmy was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: it is wrecking ours, is inhuman and unnatural. We must reconsider our
institution of the Coming of Age, which is too late for some purposes,
and too early for others. There should be a series of Coming of Ages
for every individual. The mammals have their first coming of age when
they are weaned; and it is noteworthy that this rather cruel and
selfish operation on the part of the parent has to be performed
resolutely, with claws and teeth; for your little mammal does not want
to be weaned, and yields only to a pretty rough assertion of the right
of the parent to be relieved of the child as soon as the child is old
enough to bear the separation. The same thing occurs with children:
they hang on to the mother's apron-string and the father's coat tails
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: finger-tips, as if some vivid life (or electricity) was streaming
through them far into the spaces of heaven, and of its roots
plunged in the earth and drawing the same energies
from below. The day was quite still and there was no
movement in the branches, but in that moment the tree
was no longer a separate or separable organism, but a vast
being ramifying far into space, sharing and uniting the
life of Earth and Sky, and full of a most amazing activity.
[1] Specimen Days, 1882-3 Edition, p. iii.
The reader of this will probably have had some similar
experiences. Perhaps he will have seen a full-foliaged Lombardy
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
