| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: the least too presuming in addressing the woman as his mother-
in-law.
Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket
and soon within the chieftain's teepee he lay fast asleep.
"The young man is not handsome after all!" whispered the woman
in her husband's ear.
"Ah, but after he has killed the red eagle he will seem
handsome enough!" answered the chieftain.
That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky
reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within
the teepees had flickered out. The ringing laughter which had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: That once would have me strive
To rouse an old endurance
That is no more alive.
It makes two people chilly
To say what we have said,
But you -- you'll not be silly
And wrangle for the dead.
"You don't? You never wrangle?
Why scold then, -- or complain?
More words will only mangle
What you've already slain.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: and the French window was open behind me. I made a
step to it, and stood looking out.
And there, amazed and afraid, even as I stood amazed
and afraid, were my cousin and my wife--my wife white
and tearless. She gave a faint cry.
"I came," she said. "I knew--knew----"
She put her hand to her throat--swayed. I made a step
forward, and caught her in my arms.
CHAPTER TEN
THE EPILOGUE
I cannot but regret, now that I am concluding my story,
War of the Worlds |
