| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: idiot that I am not in, or that I will not see him. I am tired
out with seeing people who always want the same thing; who pay me
for it, and then think they are quit of me. If those who are
going to go in for our hateful business only knew what it really
was they would sooner be chambermaids. But no, vanity, the desire
of having dresses and carriages and diamonds carries us away; one
believes what one hears, for here, as elsewhere, there is such a
thing as belief, and one uses up one's heart, one's body, one's
beauty, little by little; one is feared like a beast of prey,
scorned like a pariah, surrounded by people who always take more
than they give; and one fine day one dies like a dog in a ditch,
Camille |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their
Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing
with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: rifles, but of the rifles themselves never a single one anywhere in
the ship. The mate of the brig, who looked rather ill and behaved
excitedly, as though he were perhaps a lunatic, wanted him to
believe that Captain Allen knew nothing of this; that it was he,
the mate, who had recently sold these rifles in the dead of night
to a certain person up the river. In proof of this story he
produced a bag of silver dollars and pressed it on his, the
gunner's, acceptance. Then, suddenly flinging it down on the deck,
he beat his own head with both his fists and started heaping
shocking curses upon his own soul for an ungrateful wretch not fit
to live.
'Twixt Land & Sea |
