| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "Well, I can take you back to the hut of the gardener's
boy," promised the Ork, "for when I fly high in the air I
can look down and easily spy the King's castle. That was
how I happened to spy you, just entering the grove; so I
flew down and waited until you came out."
"How can you carry me?" asked the boy.
"You'll have to sit straddle my shoulders and put your
arms around my neck. Do you think you can keep from
falling off?"
"I'll try," said Button-Bright. So the Ork squatted
down and the boy took his seat and held on tight. Then
The Scarecrow of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so. I have never
heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound
intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming
solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note. And this new
sound is so close to me; it is right at my shoulder, right at my
ear, first on one side and then on the other, and I am used only
to sounds that are more or less distant from me.
Friday
The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I
had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty--
GARDEN-OF-EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.]
Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather
talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their
slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above
the nether-stocks. Here's a song goes of Martin Swart, too, an I
had but memory for it:--
'Martin Swart and his men,
Saddle them, saddle them,
Martin Swart and his men;
Saddle them well.'"
[This verse of an old song actually occurs in an old play where
Kenilworth |
