| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: We are women of a breed whose racial ideal was no Helen of Troy, passed
passively from male hand to male hand, as men pass gold or lead; but that
Brynhild whom Segurd found, clad in helm and byrne, the warrior maid, who
gave him counsel "the deepest that ever yet was given to living man," and
"wrought on him to the performing of great deeds;" who, when he died,
raised high the funeral pyre and lay down on it beside him, crying, "Nor
shall the door swing to at the heel of him as I go in beside him!" We are
of a race of women that of old knew no fear, and feared no death, and lived
great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on
evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old
blood.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: thyself thou blockest the way!"--And with every word he came nearer and
nearer the first one. When, however, he was but a step behind, there
happened the frightful thing which made every mouth mute and every eye
fixed--he uttered a yell like a devil, and jumped over the other who was in
his way. The latter, however, when he thus saw his rival triumph, lost at
the same time his head and his footing on the rope; he threw his pole away,
and shot downwards faster than it, like an eddy of arms and legs, into the
depth. The market-place and the people were like the sea when the storm
cometh on: they all flew apart and in disorder, especially where the body
was about to fall.
Zarathustra, however, remained standing, and just beside him fell the body,
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: Edgar Caswall was so far increased, as to justify a more fixed
belief in his submission to her charms.
As a matter of fact, she had seen Caswall that morning when she
visited Castra Regis, and they had had a long talk together, during
which the possibility of their union had been discussed. Caswall,
without being enthusiastic on the subject, had been courteous and
attentive; as she had walked back to Diana's Grove, she almost
congratulated herself on her new settlement in life. That the idea
was becoming fixed in her mind, was shown by a letter which she
wrote later in the day to Adam Salton, and sent to him by hand. It
ran as follows:
Lair of the White Worm |
