| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: There's a wondrous smell of spices............ 66
There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary
soul........................................ 102
There was a bear -- his name was Jim.......... 134
The skies are blue and the sun is out......... 78
The sumac's flaming scarlet................... 136
The things that haven't been done before...... 172
The things that make a soldier great.......... 114
The world's too busy now to pause............. 92
'Tis better to have tried in vain............. 83
To do your little bit of toil................. 133
A Heap O' Livin' |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "I want to go in here and get a cigar."
While buying his cigar and lighting it, he asked for several
newspapers, choosing those which his quick eye had told him were no
longer among the piles on the counter. "I'm very sorry, sir," said
the clerk; "we have only a few of those papers, just two or three
more than we need for our regular customers, and this morning they
are all sold. The housekeeper from the Thorne mansion took the very
last ones."
This was exactly what Muller wanted to know. He left the store and
caught up with the old butler as the latter was opening the handsome
iron gate that led from the Thorne property out onto the street.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: take my life away, even in this hour! Or else, would that
the stormwind might snatch me up, and bear me hence down
the dusky ways, and cast me forth where the back-flowing
Oceanus mingles with the sea. It should be even as when the
stormwinds bare away the daughters of Pandareus. Their
father and their mother the gods had slain, and the maidens
were left orphans in the halls, and fair Aphrodite
cherished them with curds and sweet honey and delicious
wine. And Here gave them beauty and wisdom beyond the lot
of women, and holy Artemis dowered them with stature, and
Athene taught them skill in all famous handiwork. Now while
The Odyssey |
