| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: philosophers as I do towards those who lisp and imitate children. For I
love to see a little child, who is not of an age to speak plainly, lisping
at his play; there is an appearance of grace and freedom in his utterance,
which is natural to his childish years. But when I hear some small
creature carefully articulating its words, I am offended; the sound is
disagreeable, and has to my ears the twang of slavery. So when I hear a
man lisping, or see him playing like a child, his behaviour appears to me
ridiculous and unmanly and worthy of stripes. And I have the same feeling
about students of philosophy; when I see a youth thus engaged,--the study
appears to me to be in character, and becoming a man of liberal education,
and him who neglects philosophy I regard as an inferior man, who will never
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: quisite attention to its position, when the cry was
repeated up and down the line in a muffled roar
of sound.
"Here they come! Here they come!" Gun
locks clicked.
Across the smoke-infested fields came a brown
swarm of running men who were giving shrill
yells. They came on, stooping and swinging
their rifles at all angles. A flag, tilted forward,
sped near the front.
As he caught sight of them the youth was
The Red Badge of Courage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: 'Who is your game-keeper?' Connie asked at lunch.
'Mellors! You saw him,' said Clifford.
'Yes, but where did he come from?'
'Nowhere! He was a Tevershall boy...son of a collier, I believe.'
'And was he a collier himself?'
'Blacksmith on the pit-bank, I believe: overhead smith. But he was
keeper here for two years before the war...before he joined up. My
father always had a good Opinion of him, so when he came back, and went
to the pit for a blacksmith's job, I just took him back here as keeper.
I was really very glad to get him...its almost impossible to find a
good man round here for a gamekeeper...and it needs a man who knows the
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
