| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: alternately; the wind kept freshening steadily, although slowly;
plentiful hurrying clouds - some dragging veils of straight rain-
shower, others massed and luminous as though promising snow -
careered out of the north and followed me along my way. I was soon
out of the cultivated basin of the Allier, and away from the
ploughing oxen, and such-like sights of the country. Moor,
heathery marsh, tracts of rock and pines, woods of birch all
jewelled with the autumn yellow, here and there a few naked
cottages and bleak fields, - these were the characters of the
country. Hill and valley followed valley and hill; the little
green and stony cattle-tracks wandered in and out of one another,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: at least."
"But does not each mother want her own child to bear her name?"
I asked.
"No--why should she? The child has its own."
"Why for--for identification--so people will know whose
child she is."
"We keep the most careful records," said Somel. "Each one
of us has our exact line of descent all the way back to our dear
First Mother. There are many reasons for doing that. But as to
everyone knowing which child belongs to which mother--why should she?"
Here, as in so many other instances, we were led to feel the
Herland |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: And the lawyer set out homeward with a very heavy heart.
"Poor Harry Jekyll," he thought, "my mind misgives me he is in
deep waters! He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to
be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of
limitations. Ay, it must be that; the ghost of some old sin, the
cancer of some concealed disgrace: punishment coming, PEDE CLAUDO,
years after memory has forgotten and self-love condoned the
fault." And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded awhile on
his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, least by
chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to
light there. His past was fairly blameless; few men could read
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
