| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: he paid his homage. Poetry had shaken out her starry robe above the
workshop where the "monkeys" and "bears" were grotesquely busy among
types and presses. Five o'clock struck, but the friends felt neither
hunger nor thirst; life had turned to a golden dream, and all the
treasures of the world lay at their feet. Far away on the horizon lay
the blue streak to which Hope points a finger in storm and stress; and
a siren voice sounded in their ears, calling, "Come, spread your
wings; through that streak of gold or silver or azure lies the sure
way of escape from evil fortune!"
Just at that moment the low glass door of the workshop was opened, and
out came Cerizet, an apprentice (David had brought the urchin from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: and I will tell you why I came."
"I am to sup at Mr. Newlington's in His Majesty's company.
"His Majesty's?"
"King Monmouth's," he explained impatiently. "Come, Ruth. Already I am
late."
"If I were to ask you not to go," she said slowly, and she held out her
hands to him, her glance most piteous - and that was not acting - as
she raised it to meet his own, "would you not stay to pleasure me?"
He considered her from under frowning eyes. "Ruth," he said, and he
took her hands, "there is here something that I do not understand.
What is't you mean?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
United States Declaration of Independence |
