| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: my way in peace and you will return to Opar with La.
I know not where the sacred knife is; but you can fashion
another. Had I not taken it from La you would have
slain me and now your god must be glad that I took it
since I have saved his priestess from love-mad Tantor.
Will you go back to Opar with La, promising that no
harm shall befall her?"
The priests gathered together in a little knot arguing
and discussing. They pounded upon their breasts with
their fists; they raised their hands and eyes to their
fiery god; they growled and barked among themselves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not
one of which they even understand, a peculiarly modern type, summed
up by Christ when he describes it as the type of one who has the
key of knowledge, cannot use it himself, and does not allow other
people to use it, though it may be made to open the gate of God's
Kingdom. His chief war was against the Philistines. That is the
war every child of light has to wage. Philistinism was the note of
the age and community in which he lived. In their heavy
inaccessibility to ideas, their dull respectability, their tedious
orthodoxy, their worship of vulgar success, their entire
preoccupation with the gross materialistic side of life, and their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "I could not sleep if I did." Helen passed a nervous finger across
her eyes. "But don't let me keep you and Babs up; it won't take me
long to arrange to-morrow's market order for Grimes."
Under pretense of searching for pencil and paper Helen contrived to
see the address of every letter lying on the table, but the envelope
she sought, with its red seal, was not among them. When she looked
up again, pencil and paper in hand, she found Mrs. Brewster leaning
lazily back and regarding her from under half-closed lids. "You are
very like your father, Helen," she commented softly.
The girl stiffened. "Am I? Babs and I are generally thought to
resemble our mother."
The Red Seal |
