| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: After all, our principal safeguard is found, not in Legislature,
but in the interests of the Women themselves. For, although they can
inflict instantaneous death by a retrograde movement,
yet unless they can at once disengage their stinging extremity
from the struggling body of their victim, their own frail bodies
are liable to be shattered.
The power of Fashion is also on our side. I pointed out that in some
less civilized States no female is suffered to stand
in any public place without swaying her back from right to left.
This practice has been universal among ladies of any pretensions
to breeding in all well-governed States, as far back as the memory
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: more. Fred Farr and Will Hutchins carried him to the roadside
and laid him on the damp grass. Henry Wheeler, trembling, turned
the rescued telescope on the mountain to see what he might. Through
the lenses were discernible three tiny figures, apparently running
towards the summit as fast as the steep incline allowed. Only
these - nothing more. Then everyone noticed a strangely unseasonable
noise in the deep valley behind, and even in the underbrush of
Sentinel Hill itself. It was the piping of unnumbered whippoorwills,
and in their shrill chorus there seemed to lurk a note of tense
and evil expectancy.
Earl Sawyer now took the telescope and
The Dunwich Horror |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like
expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that
there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them
into practice.
But, as to my self, having been wearied out for many years with
offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly
despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal,
which, as it is wholly new, so it hath something solid and real,
of no expence and little trouble, full in our own power, and
whereby we can incur no danger in disobliging England. For this
kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of
A Modest Proposal |
