| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour: and a right which thou canst seize
upon, shalt thou not allow to be given thee!
What thou doest can no one do to thee again. Lo, there is no requital.
He who cannot command himself shall obey. And many a one CAN command
himself, but still sorely lacketh self-obedience!
5.
Thus wisheth the type of noble souls: they desire to have nothing
GRATUITOUSLY, least of all, life.
He who is of the populace wisheth to live gratuitously; we others, however,
to whom life hath given itself--we are ever considering WHAT we can best
give IN RETURN!
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: engagement. But it didn't prove fatal. We got through it somehow.
We dined with Aunt Jane, and wined with Uncle Joseph, and perhaps
had two fingers given to us by old Cousin Horatio, whose enormous
fortune was of the greatest importance to everybody. And perhaps
fragments of the other family's estimate of us subsequently
reached our own ears. But if a chosen lover cannot stand being
treated as a specimen by the other family, he's a very weak
vessel, and not worth any good girl's love. That's all I can say
for him.
Now the Virginian was scarcely what even his enemy would term a
weak vessel; and Molly's jealousy of the impression which he
The Virginian |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: Glenn and the Hutters was that they had gone to the Tonto Basin to buy hogs
and would be absent at least a month. This gave birth to a new plan in
Carley's mind. She would doubly surprise Glenn. Wherefore she took council
with some Flagstaff business men and engaged them to set a force of men at
work on the Deep Lake property, making the improvements she desired, and
hauling lumber, cement, bricks, machinery, supplies--all the necessaries for
building construction. Also she instructed them to throw up a tent house
for her to live in during the work, and to engage a reliable Mexican man
with his wife for servants. When she left for the Canyon she was happier
than ever before in her life.
It was near the coming of sunset when Carley first looked down into the
The Call of the Canyon |
