| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: Galazi beat them back, and they rested awhile. Then Galazi said, "Let
us cut meat from the bull with a spear."
So they cut meat from the bull, and when they had finished Galazi
motioned to the wolves, and they fell upon the carcase, fighting
furiously. In a little while nothing was left except the larger bones,
and yet each wolf had but a little.
Then they went back to the cave and slept.
Afterwards Umslopogaas told Galazi all his tale, and Galazi asked him
if he would abide with him and be his brother, and rule with him over
the wolf-kind, or seek his father Mopo at the kraal of Chaka.
Umslopogaas said that it was rather in his mind to seek his sister
Nada the Lily |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: mixed with silt and sand and other stones which have come down
inside the glacier itself, and piled up in the field in great
mounds, which are called moraines, such as you may see and walk on
in Scotland many a time, though you might never guess what they
are.
The river which runs out at the glacier foot is, you must
remember, all foul and milky with the finest mud; and that mud is
the grinding of the rocks over which the glacier has been crawling
down, and scraping them as it scraped my bit of stone with pebbles
and with sand. And this is the alphabet, which, if you learn by
heart, you will learn to understand how Madam How uses her great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: more!"
"Fast! Ah, too Fast." The older girls were crimson; some of the younger
ones began to cry. Big spots of rain blew against the windows, and one
could hear the willows whispering, "...not that I do not love you..."
"But, my darling, if you love me," thought Miss Meadows, "I don't mind how
much it is. Love me as little as you like." But she knew he didn't love
her. Not to have cared enough to scratch out that word "disgust," so that
she couldn't read it! "Soon Autumn yields unto Winter Drear." She would
have to leave the school, too. She could never face the Science Mistress
or the girls after it got known. She would have to disappear somewhere.
"Passes away." The voices began to die, to fade, to whisper...to vanish...
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