| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: necessity of our social organisation, and their number cannot be
diminished if the causes to which they are due cannot be modified
in a preventive sense, it behoves legislators to recognise these
causes, and to eliminate them as far as possible. They must frame
the budget of crime as they frame that of the national
revenue and expenditure.''
It must nevertheless be borne in mind that all this will have to
be done apart from the penal code; for it is true, however
strange, that history, statistics, and direct observation of
criminal phenomena prove that penal laws are the least effectual
in preventing crime, whilst the strongest influence is exercised
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: There was, too, a feeling of profound and inexplicable horror
concerning myself. I developed a queer fear of seeing my own form,
as if my eyes would find it something utterly alien and inconceivably
abhorrent.
When I did glance down and behold the familiar human
shape in quiet grey or blue clothing, I always felt a curious
relief, though in order to gain this relief I had to conquer an
infinite dread. I shunned mirrors as much as possible, and was
always shaved at the barber's.
It was a long time before I correlated
any of these disappointed feelings with the fleeting, visual impressions
Shadow out of Time |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: VINCENTIO.
Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken'd you?
BIANCA.
Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll sleep again.
PETRUCHIO.
Nay, that you shall not; since you have begun,
Have at you for a bitter jest or two.
BIANCA.
Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush,
And then pursue me as you draw your bow.
You are welcome all.
The Taming of the Shrew |
