| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: No bring um tent. Mebbe bring um fly? um little fly?"
"No fly," Daylight answered decisively.
"Um much cold."
"We travel light--savvee? We carry plenty letters out, plenty
letters back. You are strong man. Plenty cold, plenty travel,
all right."
"Sure all right," Kama muttered, with resignation.
"Much cold, no care a damn. Um ready nine um clock."
He turned on his moccasined heel and walked out, imperturbable,
sphinx-like, neither giving nor receiving greetings nor looking
to right or left. The Virgin led Daylight away into a corner.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: wood merchants, the weavers' quarter, the dried fish quar-
ter, etc. Some booths were even built of fancy materials,
some of bricks of tea, others of masses of salt meat -- that
is to say, of samples of the goods which the owners thus
announced were there to the purchasers -- a singular, and
somewhat American, mode of advertisement.
In the avenues and long alleys there was already a large
assemblage of people -- the sun, which had risen at four
o'clock, being well above the horizon -- an extraordinary
mixture of Europeans and Asiatics, talking, wrangling,
haranguing, and bargaining. Everything which can be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: therethrough, but--he must stoop!
Oh, when shall I arrive again at my home, where I shall no longer have to
stoop--shall no longer have to stoop BEFORE THE SMALL ONES!"--And
Zarathustra sighed, and gazed into the distance.--
The same day, however, he gave his discourse on the bedwarfing virtue.
2.
I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me
for not envying their virtues.
They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small
virtues are necessary--and because it is hard for me to understand that
small people are NECESSARY!
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
