| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: they were so astonished that they could only look at one another and
say to one another: ``What do they mean? Where did they learn
that?''
And the little girl who had taught the other little girls that much
of the song remembered some more; and so she beat louder than ever
on the window pane and said:
``Rain, rain, rain,
Go away!
And come another day!''
All the little girls laughed more than ever and sang louder than
ever:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: banquet and wooing, for the sight of arms sometimes tempts
people to use them."
Telemachus approved of what his father had said, so he called
nurse Euryclea and said, "Nurse, shut the women up in their
room, while I take the armour that my father left behind him
down into the store room. No one looks after it now my father is
gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own
boyhood. I want to take it down where the smoke cannot reach
it."
"I wish, child," answered Euryclea, "that you would take the
management of the house into your own hands altogether, and look
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: this life any longer. Ah, I wish Death would only come and take
me!"
As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, appeared and said to
him: "What wouldst thou, Mortal? I heard thee call me."
"Please, sir," replied the woodcutter, "would you kindly help
me to lift this faggot of sticks on to my shoulder?"
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
The Hare With Many Friends
A Hare was very popular with the other beasts who all claimed
to be her friends. But one day she heard the hounds approaching
and hoped to escape them by the aid of her many Friends. So, she
Aesop's Fables |
