| 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: apply it to the faggots surrounding the sacrificial
pyre. His hairy, bestial face was distorted in a
yellow-fanged grin of anticipatory enjoyment. His
hands were cupped to receive the life blood of the
victim--the red nectar that at Opar would have filled
the golden sacrificial goblets.
La approached with upraised knife, her face turned
toward the rising sun and upon her lips a prayer to the
burning deity of her people. The High Priest looked
questioningly toward her--the brand was burning close
to his hand and the faggots lay temptingly near.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: brought us news from the Old World, and each one had tricks or
tales that were new to us. One man showed us that we could put
our hand on the bottom of a boiling teakettle and find the bottom
cool. Another told us about milking goats in the Old Country. We
asked him how much milk a goat would give. He said, "About a
thimbleful," and we thought him very witty. Another had shipped
as an "able seaman" to get his passage to America. When out at
sea it was discovered he didn't know one rope from another.
During a storm he and the mate had a terrible fight. "The sea was
sweeping the deck and we were ordered to reef a shroud. I didn't
know how, and the mate called me a name that no Welshman will
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: to believe that there must have been a period when Man,
too, hardly as yet differentiated from them, did himself possess
these same qualities--perhaps even in greater degree than
the animals--of grace and beauty of body, perfection
of movement and action, instinctive perception and knowledge
(of course in limited spheres); and a period when
he possessed above all a sense of unity with his fellows
and with surrounding Nature which became the ground
of a common consciousness between himself and his tribe,
similar to that which Maeterlinck, in the case of the
Bees, calls the Spirit of the Hive.[1] It would be difficult,
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
