| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: tree, and bucks and wenches looking over every fence;
and as soon as the mob would get nearly to them they
would break and skaddle back out of reach. Lots of
the women and girls was crying and taking on, scared
most to death.
They swarmed up in front of Sherburn's palings as
thick as they could jam together, and you couldn't
hear yourself think for the noise. It was a little
twenty-foot yard. Some sung out "Tear down the
fence! tear down the fence!" Then there was a
racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri: not the courage in 1889 to adopt them frankly; and in the
definitive text, as in the ministerial draft, it took refuge in an
eclectic arrangement which has already met with a crowd of
obstacles, due to the vagueness of the principles inspiring the
code.
These criminal lunatic asylums ought to be of two kinds, differing
in their discipline, one for the insane authors of serious and
dangerous crimes, such as homicide, incendiarism, rape, and the
like; and the other for slighter crimes, such as petty theft,
violent language, outrages on public decency, and the like. For
the latter, seclusion should be shorter than for the others. Thus
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: wants divorce and marriage so as to burn his ships. He loves me,
but how? The zest is gone, as the English say. That fellow wants
every one to admire him and is very much pleased with himself,"
she thought, looking at a red-faced clerk, riding on a riding-
school horse. "Yes, there's not the same flavor about me for him
now. If I go away from him, at the bottom of his heart he will be
glad."
This was not mere supposition, she saw it distinctly in the
piercing light, which revealed to her now the meaning of life and
human relations.
"My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is
Anna Karenina |
