| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln: Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . .
can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. . .we cannot consecrate. . .
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power
to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember,
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: will; but, at the same time, if I had required your generosity, it would
not have been shown me. If, when I got your letter a month ago, hinting at
your willingness to marry me, I had at once written, imploring you to come,
you would have read the letter. 'Poor little devil!' you would have said,
and tore it up. The next week you would have sailed for Europe, and have
sent me a check for a hundred and fifty pounds (which I would have thrown
in the fire), and I would have heard no more of you."
The stranger smiled.
"But because I declined your proposal, and wrote that in three weeks I
should be married to another, then what you call love woke up. Your man's
love is a child's love for butterflies. You follow till you have the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: "Ten dollars!"
"But a pupil like Theodore is in the nature of an
investment," Bauer hastened to explain. "An advertisement.
After hearing him play, and after what Schabelitz here will
have to say for him, Wolfsohn will certainly give Theodore
lessons for nothing, or next to nothing. You remember" --
proudly-- "I offered to teach him without charge, but you
would not have it."
Schabelitz smote his friend sharply on the shoulder "The
true musician! Oh, Bauer, Bauer! That you should bury
yourself in this----"
Fanny Herself |
