| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: was to me like death itself, which, after it was read, confounded
me. I had no more spirit left in me, I had no tongue to speak,
or eyes to look up either to God or man.
My poor governess was utterly disconsolate, and she that was
my comforter before, wanted comfort now herself; and sometimes
mourning, sometimes raging, was as much out of herself, as to
all outward appearance, as any mad woman in Bedlam. Nor
was she only disconsolate as to me, but she was struck with
horror at the sense of her own wicked life, and began to look
back upon it with a taste quite different from mine, for she
was penitent to the highest degree for her sins, as well as
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could
properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the
possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly
by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable
words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and
so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. To give a single
example. The word FREE still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be
used in such statements as 'This dog is free from lice' or 'This field is
free from weeds'. It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically
free' or 'intellectually free' since political and intellectual freedom no
longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless.
1984 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [16] Reading, with Sauppe, {all' e georgia}, or if, with Jacobs, {e en
georgia argia}, transl. "as that of idleness in husbandry."
[17] Or, "if not, he must be entirely irrational." Cf. Plat. "Apol."
37 C.
Presently, Ischomachus proceeded: Now it is of prime importance,[18]
in reference to the profitableness or unprofitableness of agriculture,
even on a large estate where there are numerous[19] workfolk,[20]
whether a man takes any pains at all to see that his labourers are
devoted to the work on hand during the appointed time,[21] or whether
he neglects that duty. Since one man will fairly distance ten[22]
simply by working at the time, and another may as easily fall short by
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