| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: day-lilies bloomed behind the paling, and a crooked elm hung
romantically over the gable of the house.
At the gate Mrs. Hochmuller, a broad woman in brick-brown
merino, met them with nods and smiles, while her daughter Linda, a
flaxen-haired girl with mottled red cheeks and a sidelong stare,
hovered inquisitively behind her. Mrs. Hochmuller, leading the way
into the house, conducted the Bunner sisters the way to her
bedroom. Here they were invited to spread out on a mountainous
white featherbed the cashmere mantles under which the solemnity of
the occasion had compelled them to swelter, and when they had given
their black silks the necessary twitch of readjustment, and Evelina
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: whether or not he had to digest a live frog.
The Muenchen October Fest, is the annual
fair at that city, and a most wonderful show it
is. I have been there twice; once as the big
feature with Circus Carre, in 1901, and again
in 1913, with the Circus Corty Althoff. The
Continental Circuses are not, like those of this
country, under canvas, but show in wooden
buildings. At these October Fests I saw a number
of frog-swallowers, and to me they were
very repulsive indeed. In fact, Norton was
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: direction, the Epeira runs across to the other side to draw some in
the opposite direction. These sudden changes of course are highly
logical; they show us how proficient the Spider is in the mechanics
of rope-construction. Were they to succeed one another regularly,
the spokes of one group, having nothing as yet to counteract them,
would distort the work by their straining, would even destroy it
for lack of a stabler support. Before continuing, it is necessary
to lay a converse group which will maintain the whole by its
resistance. Any combination of forces acting in one direction must
be forthwith neutralized by another in the opposite direction.
This is what our statics teach us and what the Spider puts into
The Life of the Spider |
