| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: and not inclined to overfriendliness. When I clerked at the
Enterprise Store in Beloit the women used to come in and ask for
something we didn't carry just for an excuse to copy the way the
lace yoke effects were planned in my shirtwaists. You ought to see
the way those same shirtwaist stack up here. Why, boy, the
lingerie waists that the other girls in my department wear make my
best hand-tucked effort look like a simple English country blouse.
They're so dripping with Irish crochet and real Val and Cluny
insertions that it's a wonder the girls don't get stoop-shouldered
carrying 'em around."
"Hold on a minute," commanded Gus. "This thing is uncanny.
Buttered Side Down |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: as they could in the direction of Mount Munch.
"I don't like this invisible country," said Woot with
a shudder. "We can't tell how many dreadful, invisible
beasts are roaming around us, or what danger we'll come
to next."
"Quit thinking about danger, please," said the
Scarecrow, warningly.
"Why?" asked the boy.
"If you think of some dreadful thing, it's liable to
happen, but if you don't think of it, and no one else
thinks of it, it just can't happen. Do you see?"
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: the way of understanding?
ISA 40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing.
ISA 40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
ISA 40:17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted
to him less than nothing, and vanity.
ISA 40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him?
ISA 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith
King James Bible |
