| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: got sick."
"Oh, not at all!" Alexandra dropped her
sewing on her knee. "He had better opportuni-
ties; not to make money, but to make some-
thing of himself. He was a quiet man, but he
was very intelligent. You would have been
proud of him, Emil."
Alexandra felt that he would like to know
there had been a man of his kin whom he
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: Incest is so familiar as hardly to call for remark. The bitter poverty
of the poor compels them to leave their children half fed. There are
few more grotesque pictures in the history of civilisation than that of
the compulsory attendance of children at school, faint with hunger
because they had no breakfast, and not sure whether they would even
secure a dry crust for dinner when their morning's quantum of education
had been duly imparted. Children thus hungered, thus housed, and thus
left to grow up as best they can without being fathered or mothered,
are not, educate them as you will, exactly the most promising material
for the making of the future citizens and rulers of the Empire.
What, then, is the ground for hope that if we leave things alone the
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: copper net that formed the basis of cloisonne tiles.
Many of these workers had lips and nostrils a livid
white, due to a disease caused by a peculiar purple
enamel that chanced to be much in fashion. Asano
apologised to Graham for the offence of their faces, but
excused himself on the score of the convenience of this
route. "This is what I wanted to see," said Graham;
"this is what I wanted to see," trying to avoid a start
at a particularly striking disfigurement that suddenly
stared him in the face.
"She might have done better with herself than
When the Sleeper Wakes |
