| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Time Machine by H. G. Wells: I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection
was so human.
`Within the big valves of the door--which were open and
broken--we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery
lit by many side windows. At the first glance I was reminded of
a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable
array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey
covering. Then I perceived, standing strange and gaunt in the
centre of the hall, what was clearly the lower part of a huge
skeleton. I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some
extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium. The skull
The Time Machine |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: mountain to mountain to fall safely upon the greensward. Only the
Wizard was now left behind, and they waited so long for him that
Dorothy began to be worried.
But suddenly he came flying from the nearest mountain and
tumbled heels over head beside them. Then they saw that
he had wound two of their blankets around his body to keep
the bumps from hurting him and had fastened the blankets with some of
the spare straps from the harness of the Sawhorse.
CHAPTER 8
THE MYSTERIOUS CITY
There they sat upon the grass, their heads still swimming from their
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: dedication of 'Himself to Himself'[2] and simultaneously
with this the interpretation of the Eucharist as meaning,
even for the individual, the participation in Eternal Life--
the continuing life of the Tribe, or ultimately of Humanity.[3]
The Tribal order rises to Humanity; love ascends from the
lingam to yogam, from physical union alone to the union
with the Whole--which of course includes physical and all
other kinds of union. No wonder that the good St. Paul,
witnessing that extraordinary whirlpool of beliefs and practices,
new and old, there in the first century A.D.--the unabashed
adoration of sex side by side with the transcendental
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
