| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: He has slept with us. He has driven game for us. He has broken
no word of the Law of the Jungle."
"Also, I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted. The
worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera's honor is something that
he will perhaps fight for," said Bagheera in his gentlest voice.
"A bull paid ten years ago!" the Pack snarled. "What do we
care for bones ten years old?"
"Or for a pledge?" said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under
his lip. "Well are ye called the Free People!"
"No man's cub can run with the people of the jungle," howled
Shere Khan. "Give him to me!"
The Jungle Book |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: kangaroo and brought it in, thinking that this one, being lonesome,
would rather have that for company than have no kin at all, or any
animal it could feel a nearness to or get sympathy from in its
forlorn condition here among strangers who do not know its ways
or habits, or what to do to make it feel that it is among friends;
but it was a mistake--it went into such fits at the sight of the
kangaroo that I was convinced it had never seen one before. I
pity the poor noisy little animal, but there is nothing I can do
to make it happy. If I could tame it--but that is out of the
question; the more I try, the worse I seem to make it. It grieves
me to the heart to see it in its little storms of sorrow and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: you know that you shall be at first his plaything and then a
scorned slave, a drudge, and a servant of some new fancy of that
man?"
She raised her hand to stop him, and turning her head slightly,
asked--
"You hear this Dain! Is it true?"
"By all the gods!" came the impassioned answer from the
darkness-- "by heaven and earth, by my head and thine I swear:
this is a white man's lie. I have delivered my soul into your
hands for ever; I breathe with your breath, I see with your eyes,
I think with your mind, and I take you into my heart for ever."
Almayer's Folly |
