| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: apt to be -- well, dangerous? That is, to the un-
trained mind?
You can carry them too far, you know -- and if
you do they work into your subconsciousness.
One of the girls -- she belongs to the same Little
Group of Advanced Thinkers that I do -- has been so
taken with the Exotic that she wears orchids all the
time and just simply CRAVES Chinese food. "My
love," she said to me only yesterday, "I feel that I
must have chop suey or I'll DIE! The Exotic has
worked into her subliminal being, you know.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: one point, they stand very wide apart on all others. The
manufacturer asks nothing of the workman but his labor; the
workman expects nothing from him but his wages. The one
contracts no obligation to protect, nor the other to defend; and
they are not permanently connected either by habit or by duty.
The aristocracy created by business rarely settles in the midst
of the manufacturing population which it directs; the object is
not to govern that population, but to use it. An aristocracy
thus constituted can have no great hold upon those whom it
employs; and even if it succeed in retaining them at one moment,
they escape the next; it knows not how to will, and it cannot
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: stars varied in their proper motions during what is after all but
an hour of time. If you, Stranger, who, I understand, are named
Humphrey, should be, as I gather, a heaven-master, naturally you
will ask me how I could fix an exact date by the stars without an
error of, let us say, from five to ten thousand years. I answer
you that by the proper motion of the stars alone it would have
been difficult. Therefore I remember that in order to be exact, I
calculated the future conjunctions of those two planets," and he
pointed to Saturn and Jupiter. "Finding that one of these
occurred near yonder star," and he indicated the bright orb,
Spica, "at a certain time, I determined that then I would awake.
When the World Shook |
