| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Bridge elevated his eyebrows a trifle. He had been mistaken,
after all. At the farmhouse the farmer's wife greeted them
kindly, thanked Billy for returning her pail--which, if the
truth were known, she had not expected to see again--and
gave them each a handful of thick, light, golden-brown cookies,
the tops of which were encrusted with sugar.
As they walked away Bridge sighed. "Nothing on earth like
a good woman," he said.
"'Maw,' or 'Penelope'?" asked Billy.
"Either, or both," replied Bridge. "I have no Penelope, but
I did have a mighty fine 'maw'."
The Mucker |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: fairy-rings. Robert is eight years old, comely, and very wise;-- I am a
little more than seven,-- and I reverence Robert. It is a glowing glorious
August day; and the warm air is filled with sharp sweet scents of resin.
We do not find any fairy-rings; but we find a great many pine-cones in the
high grass... I tell Robert the old Welsh story of the man who went to
sleep, unawares, inside a fairy-ring, and so disappeared for seven years,
and would never eat or speak after his friends had delivered him from the
enchantment.
"They eat nothing but the points of needles, you know," says Robert.
"Who?" I ask.
""Goblins," Robert answers.
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: the ground withal:
Great is God, for that He hath given us hands and the power of
swallowing and digesting; of unconsciously growing and
breathing while we sleep!
Thus should we ever have sung; yea and this, the grandest and
divinest hymn of all:--
Great is God, for that He hath given us a mind to apprehend these
things, and duly to use them!
What then! seeing that most of you are blinded, should there
not be some one to fill this place, and sing the hymn to God on
behalf of all men? What else can I that am old and lame do but
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus |
