| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: a good Street Sweeper and like all our
brother Street Sweepers, save for our
cursed wish to know. We looked too long
at the stars at night, and at the trees and
the earth. And when we cleaned the yard
of the Home of the Scholars, we gathered
the glass vials, the pieces of metal, the dried
bones which they had discarded. We wished
to keep these things and to study them,
but we had no place to hide them.
So we carried them to the City Cesspool.
Anthem |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: low-born men like Drake, who "would like to see the gentleman that
would not set his hand to a rope, and hale and draw with the
mariners." Thus sprang up that respect for, even fondness for,
severe bodily labour, which the educated class of no nation save our
own has ever felt; and which has stood them in such good stead,
whether at home or abroad. Thus, too, sprang up the system of
society by which (as the ballad sets forth) the squire's son might
be a "'prentice good," and marry
"The bailiff's daughter dear
That dwelt at Islington,"
without tarnishing, as he would have done on the Continent, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Forsooke his Scene, and entred in a brake,
When I did him at this aduantage take,
An Asses nole I fixed on his head.
Anon his Thisbie must be answered,
And forth my Mimmick comes: when they him spie,
As Wilde-geese, that the creeping Fowler eye,
Or russed-pated choughes, many in sort
(Rising and cawing at the guns report)
Seuer themselues, and madly sweepe the skye:
So at his sight, away his fellowes flye,
And at our stampe, here ore and ore one fals;
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
