| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: seemed to them they had lived together twenty years.
Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica
had never yet been outside England. So that it seemed to her the
whole world had changed--the very light of it had changed.
Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and
Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and
mountain, such shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen
before. Everything was fresh and bright, from the kindly manners
of the Frutigen cobbler, who hammered mountain nails into her
boots, to the unfamiliar wild flowers that spangled the wayside.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: MOSES. No 'twouldn't do.
TRIP. A small sum--but twenty Pound--harkee, Moses do you think
you could get it me by way of annuity?
SIR OLIVER. An annuity! ha! ha! a Footman raise money by annuity--
Well done Luxury egad! [Aside.]
MOSES. Who would you get to join with you?
TRIP. You know my Lord Applice--you have seen him however----
MOSES. Yes----
TRIP. You must have observed what an appearance he makes--nobody
dresses better, nobody throws off faster--very well this Gentleman
will stand my security.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: obliterated all things, who will be found to have the greater
reason,--the Nubian savage or the patrician of Thebes? Your doubts
descend the scale, they go from heights to depths, they embrace all,
the end as well as the means.
"But if the physical world seems inexplicable, the moral world
presents still stronger arguments against God. Where, then, is
progress? If all things are indeed moving toward perfection why do we
die young? why do not nations perpetuate themselves? The world having
issued from God and being contained in God can it be stationary? Do we
live once, or do we live always? If we live once, hurried onward by
the march of the Great-Whole, a knowledge of which has not been given
Seraphita |
