| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'Because - because he doesn't look like it,' said Una stoutly.
'I thank you,' said Simon to Una. 'I - I was always trustable-
like with children if you let me alone, you double handful o'
mischief.' He pretended to heave up his axe on Puck; and then his
shyness overtook him afresh.
'Where did you know Sir Francis Drake?' said Dan, not liking
being called a child.
'At Rye Port, to be sure,' said Simon, and seeing Dan's
bewilderment, repeated it.
'Yes, but look here,'said Dan. '"Drake he was a Devon man."
The song says so.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: scratched out his eyes.
The Wolf and the Babe
A FAMISHING Wolf, passing the door of a cottage in the forest,
heard a Mother say to her babe:
"Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the wolves
will get you."
So he waited all day below the window, growing more hungry all the
time. But at night the Old Man, having returned from the village
club, threw out both Mother and Child.
The Wolf and the Ostrich
A WOLF, who in devouring a man had choked himself with a bunch of
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: My father, and a king.
PERICLES.
How! a king's daughter?
And call'd Marina?
MARINA.
You said you would believe me;
But, not to be a troubler of your peace,
I will end here.
PERICLES.
But are you flesh and blood?
Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?
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