| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: shirk the battle because he thinks he isn't needed.
The reason a woman with a carving knife was strong enough to
put a stop to fighting in the Greasy Spoon was this: she had
behind her every man except the two who were fighting. Had
either of those men struck down the woman, then twenty other men,
outraged by such a deed, would then and there have swarmed upon
the two and crushed them. The woman stood for right and she
always triumphed because she had (and these two knew she had) the
biggest bunch of fighters on her side.
This is what peace means, an equilibrium between forces. It is
the natural law,--God's way of keeping peace. And any plan for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: "Then, does he write?"
"I--I cannot tell you. There are things which are
private to ourselves."
"Of course that means that he does not. You are a
deserted wife, my fair Tess----"
In an impulse he turned suddenly to take her hand; the
buff-glove was on it, and he seized only the rough
leather fingers which did not express the life or shape
of those within.
"You must not--you must not!" she cried fearfully,
slipping her hand from the glove as from a pocket, and
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: 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.
And then we made the discovery.
It was on a day of the spring before last.
We Street Sweepers work in brigades of
three, and we were with Union 5-3992,
they of the half-brain, and with International
Anthem |
