| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: "But you can't wear it."
"Can't! Why can't I?"
"Because you're the brunest kind of brunette. And dark
people have a special curse hanging over them that makes
them want to wear red. It's fatal. That tie makes you look
like a Mafia murderer dressed for business."
"I knew it," groaned Heyl. "Something told me." He sank
into a chair at the side of her desk, a picture of mock
dejection. "And I chose it. Deliberately. I had black
ones, and blue ones, and green ones. And I chose--this."
He covered his face with a shaking hand.
Fanny Herself |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: whom one has a feeling of perfect security--no one could
help but have confidence in Mr. Caldwell."
A moment later the steward returned to say that Mr. Caldwell
was not in his stateroom. "I cannot find him, Miss Strong,
and"--he hesitated--"I have learned that his berth was not
occupied last night. I think that I had better report the
matter to the captain."
"Most assuredly," exclaimed Miss Strong. "I shall go
with you to the captain myself. It is terrible! I know that
something awful has happened. My presentiments were not
false, after all."
The Return of Tarzan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: lifetime has been universally entertained; and from the
conception of wolf-like ghosts it was but a short step to the
conception of corporeal werewolves. In the Middle Ages the
phenomena of trance and catalepsy were cited in proof of the
theory that the soul can leave the body and afterwards return
to it. Hence it was very difficult for a person accused of
witchcraft to prove an alibi; for to any amount of evidence
showing that the body was innocently reposing at home and in
bed, the rejoinder was obvious that the soul may nevertheless
have been in attendance at the witches' Sabbath or busied in
maiming a neighbour's cattle. According to one mediaeval
Myths and Myth-Makers |
