| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: though I know that your mother is an unmarried woman, I do not
respect her the less on that account. I respect her more.
FRANK [airily] Hear! hear!
VIVIE [staring at him] Is that a l l you know?
PRAED. Certainly that is all.
VIVIE. Then you neither of you know anything. Your guesses are
innocence itself compared with the truth.
PRAED [rising, startled and indignant, and preserving his
politeness with an effort] I hope not. [More emphatically] I
hope not, Miss Warren.
FRANK [whistles] Whew!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: scorching condition from the burning of a house will have
mastered the problem of a fire. It is just happening to and
about them. It may, for anything they have learnt about it,
happen to them again.
A vast majority of people are being swamped by the spectacular
side of the business. It was very largely my fear of being so
swamped myself that made me reluctant to go as a spectator to the
front. I knew that my chances of being hit by a bullet were
infinitesimal, but I was extremely afraid of being hit by some
too vivid impression. I was afraid that I might see some
horribly wounded man or some decayed dead body that would so scar
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: MY DEAR HENRY JAMES, - Kipling is too clever to live. The BETE
HUMAINE I had already perused in Noumea, listening the while to the
strains of the convict band. He a Beast; but not human, and, to be
frank, not very interesting. 'Nervous maladies: the homicidal
ward,' would be the better name: O, this game gets very tedious.
Your two long and kind letters have helped to entertain the old
familiar sickbed. So has a book called THE BONDMAN, by Hall Caine;
I wish you would look at it. I am not half-way through yet. Read
the book, and communicate your views. Hall Caine, by the way,
appears to take Hugo's view of History and Chronology. (LATER; the
book doesn't keep up; it gets very wild.)
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