| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: now that he looked at the sled itself, the concrete fact, with the
regular team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it, the more
impossible the task appeared. Matthewson waxed jubilant.
"Three to one!" he proclaimed. "I'll lay you another thousand at
that figure, Thornton. What d'ye say?"
Thornton's doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit
was aroused--the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to
recognize the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for
battle. He called Hans and Pete to him. Their sacks were slim,
and with his own the three partners could rake together only two
hundred dollars. In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: other-personalities. Many of us have the flying dream,
the pursuing-monster dream, color dreams, suffocation
dreams, and the reptile and vermin dreams. In short,
while this other-personality is vestigial in all of us,
in some of us it is almost obliterated, while in others
of us it is more pronounced. Some of us have stronger
and completer race memories than others.
It is all a question of varying degree of possession of
the other-personality. In myself, the degree of
possession is enormous. My other-personality is almost
equal in power with my own personality. And in this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: evil-disposed persons- referred to mysteriously as 'they'-had
fastened greedily upon her words, and, waving aside her
objection that she had no paraphernalia, deliberately proceeded
to provide the same, that she might have no excuse. The booth
was run up, the puppets procured. The gentle hint that she
wanted to withdraw had been let fall at the exact moment with
deadly effect, and- the wicked work was done. She had been
motored over and here set down, complete with booth, half an
hour ago. They were going to look back later, just to see how
she was getting on. The ordeal was to be over and the wager won
by six o'clock, and she might have the assistance of a native in
The Brother of Daphne |
