| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: up their monopoly; to spread a popular knowledge of medicine. "How
much," he wrote once, "would I endure and suffer, to see every man
his own shepherd--his own healer." He laughed to scorn their long
prescriptions, used the simplest drugs, and declared Nature, after
all, to be the best physician--as a dog, he says, licks his wound
well again without our help; or as the broken rib of the ox heals of
its own accord.
Such a man was not to be endured. They hated him, he says, for the
same reason that they hated Luther, for the same reason that the
Pharisees hated Christ. He met their attacks with scorn, rage, and
language as coarse and violent as their own. The coarseness and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: A smile that shines out through the dirt and the
grime,
And eyes that are flashing delight all the time:
All these are the joys that I'm eager to meet
And look for the moment I get to my street.
IT ISN'T COSTLY
Does the grouch get richer quicker than the
friendly sort of man?
Can the grumbler labor better than the cheerful
fellow can?
Is the mean and churlish neighbor any cleverer
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: Abbadirs, clasped with bands of Phrygian stuffs, placed themselves on
the east, while towards the south, with the necromancers all covered
with tattooings, and the shriekers in patched cloaks, were ranged the
curates of the Pataec gods, and the Yidonim, who put the bone of a
dead man into their mouths to learn the future. The priests of Ceres,
who were dressed in blue robes, had prudently stopped in the street of
Satheb, and in low tones were chanting a thesmophorion in the Megarian
dialect.
From time to time files of men arrived, completely naked, their arms
outstretched, and all holding one another by the shoulders. From the
depths of their breasts they drew forth a hoarse and cavernous
Salammbo |
