| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: in the distance.
24 June.--Last night the Count left me early, and locked himself
into his own room. As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair,
and looked out of the window, which opened South. I thought I
would watch for the Count, for there is something going on.
The Szgany are quartered somewhere in the castle and are doing
work of some kind. I know it, for now and then, I hear a far-away
muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is,
it must be the end of some ruthless villainy.
I had been at the window somewhat less than half an hour,
when I saw something coming out of the Count's window.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side. There
were three nags and two mares, not eating, but some of them
sitting down upon their hams, which I very much wondered at; but
wondered more to see the rest employed in domestic business;
these seemed but ordinary cattle. However, this confirmed my
first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute
animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.
The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill
treatment which the others might have given me. He neighed to
them several times in a style of authority, and received answers.
Beyond this room there were three others, reaching the length of
Gulliver's Travels |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: physical dignity seems to me to be impossible. To sweep it with
joy would be appalling. Man is made for something better than
disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a
machine.
And I have no doubt that it will be so. Up to the present, man has
been, to a certain extent, the slave of machinery, and there is
something tragic in the fact that as soon as man had invented a
machine to do his work he began to starve. This, however, is, of
course, the result of our property system and our system of
competition. One man owns a machine which does the work of five
hundred men. Five hundred men are, in consequence, thrown out of
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