| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: upon him. He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his
tongue. It bit like fire, and the next instant was gone. This
puzzled him. He tried it again, with the same result. The
onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not
why, for it was his first snow.
Chapter II
The Law of Club and Fang
Buck's first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Every
hour was filled with shock and surprise. He had been suddenly
jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of
things primordial. No lazy, sun-kissed life was this, with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: father of a fool hath no joy.
PRO 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
PRO 17:23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the
ways of judgment.
PRO 17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of
a fool are in the ends of the earth.
PRO 17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her
that bare him.
PRO 17:26 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes
for equity.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: centerward from various outlying directions--everywhere
is enthusiastic joy, there is rushing movement everywhere.
There are fifteen or twenty figures scattered here and there,
with books, but they cannot keep their attention on
their reading--they offer the books to others, but no
one wishes to read, now. The Lion of St. Mark is there
with his book; St. Mark is there with his pen uplifted;
he and the Lion are looking each other earnestly in the face,
disputing about the way to spell a word--the Lion
looks up in rapt admiration while St. Mark spells.
This is wonderfully interpreted by the artist.
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