| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: a hole in a filbert, or a piece of wood riddled by dry rot,
will recognize a similarity of appearance in the channels made
by these insect enemies.
Among the paper-eating species are:--
1. The "Anobium." Of this beetle there are varieties, viz.:
"A. pertinax," "A. eruditus," and "A. paniceum." In the larval
state they are grubs, just like those found, in nuts; in this stage
they are too much alike to be distinguished from one another.
They feed on old dry wood, and often infest bookcases and shelves.
They eat the wooden boards of old books, and so pass into the paper
where they make long holes quite round, except when they work
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: "There was no ploughing," said Hathi.
"And to the men that live by the green crops on the ground?"
said Mowgli.
"They went away."
"And to the huts in which the men slept?" said Mowgli.
"We tore the roofs to pieces, and the Jungle swallowed up the
walls," said Hathi.
"And what more?" said Mowgli.
"As much good ground as I can walk over in two nights from the
east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I
can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took. We let in the
The Second Jungle Book |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Euen with the verie Comment of my Soule
Obserue mine Vnkle: If his occulted guilt,
Do not it selfe vnkennell in one speech,
It is a damned Ghost that we haue seene:
And my Imaginations are as foule
As Vulcans Stythe. Giue him needfull note,
For I mine eyes will riuet to his Face:
And after we will both our iudgements ioyne,
To censure of his seeming
Hora. Well my Lord.
If he steale ought the whil'st this Play is Playing,
Hamlet |
