| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: Science as its methods. What it aims at is an Individualism
expressing itself through joy. This Individualism will be larger,
fuller, lovelier than any Individualism has ever been. Pain is not
the ultimate mode of perfection. It is merely provisional and a
protest. It has reference to wrong, unhealthy, unjust
surroundings. When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice
are removed, it will have no further place. It will have done its
work. It was a great work, but it is almost over. Its sphere
lessens every day.
Nor will man miss it. For what man has sought for is, indeed,
neither pain nor pleasure, but simply Life. Man has sought to live
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: not gaining upon us so fast as at first. In consequence,
his requests that we stop suddenly changed to com-
mands as he became aware that we were trying to
escape him.
"Come back!" he shouted. "Come back, or I'll fire!"
I use the word fire because it more nearly translates
into English the Pellucidarian word trag, which covers
the launching of any deadly missile.
But Juag only seized his paddle more tightly--the
paddle that answered the purpose of rudder, and com-
menced to assist the wind by vigorous strokes. Then
Pellucidar |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: "No," Chad continued in the same way; "they won't have it for a minute."
Strether on his side also reflectively smoked. It was as if their
high place really represented some moral elevation from which they
could look down on their recent past. "There never was the
smallest chance, do you know, that they WOULD have it for a moment."
"Of course not--no real chance. But if they were willing to think
there was--!"
"They weren't willing." Strether had worked it all out. "It wasn't
for you they came out, but for me. It wasn't to see for themselves
what you're doing, but what I'm doing. The first branch of their
curiosity was inevitably destined, under my culpable delay, to give way
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