| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: with each other for a prize which is awarded for the best
design, the judges being the artists themselves. It is the art
of the poster, art with a purpose of the most definite kind.
The result is sometimes amusing, interesting, startling, but,
whatever else it does, hammers home a plain idea.
Thus the picture on the side of one wagon is divided into
two sections. On the left is a representation of the peasants
and workmen of the Soviet Republic. Under it are the
words, "Let us not find ourselves again..." and then, in
gigantic lettering under the right-hand section of the picture,
"... in the HEAVEN OF THE WHITES." This heaven is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: MUJINA
ROKURO-KUBI
A DEAD SECRET
YUKI-ONNA
THE STORY OF AOYAGI
JIU-ROKU-ZAKURA
THE DREAM OF AKINOSUKE
RIKI-BAKA
HI-MAWARI
HORAI
INSECT STUDIES
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: yet he knew that he never had seen Numa climb a tree,
or Histah with the head and belly of an old black man whom
Tarzan already had slain.
Finally, with a sigh he gave up trying to fathom
the unfathomable, yet in his heart of hearts he knew
that something had come into his life that he never before
had experienced, another life which existed when he slept
and the consciousness of which was carried over into his waking
hours.
Then he commenced to wonder if some of these strange
creatures which he met in his sleep might not slay him,
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
