| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda:
1. THUS in the Soma, in wild joy the Brahman hath exalted thee:
Thou, mightiest It thunder-armed, hast driven by force he Dragon
from
the earth, lauding thine own imperial sway.
2 The mighty flowing Soma-draught, brought by the Hawk, hath
gladdened
thee,
That in thy strength, O Thunderer, thou hast struck down Vrtra
from
the floods, lauding thine own imperial sway.
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: menced teaching him to speak English, but with a
studied and very marked French accent. During all his
life now he could not remember of having spoken to
any living being other than his guardian, whom he had
been taught to address as father. Nor did the boy have
any name--he was just "my son."
His life in the Derby hills was so filled with the hard,
exacting duties of his education that he had little time
to think of the strange loneliness of his existence; nor
is it probable that he missed that companionship of
others of his own age of which, never having had ex-
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: the piece is so reduced that the merest touch suffices to fire it, thus
rendering it hair-triggered in the fullest sense of the word.
It has two flap-sights marked for 150 and 200 yards, in addition to the
fixed sight designed for firing at 100 yards.
On the lock are engraved a stag and a doe, the first lying down and the
second standing.
Of its sort and period, it is an extraordinarily well-made and handy
gun, finished with horn at the end of what is now called the tongue, and
with the stock cut away so as to leave a raised cushion against which
the cheek of the shooter rests.
What charge it took I do not know, but I should imagine from 2 1/2 to 3
Marie |
