| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: cherish a particular score of the same fault in whites. And
Mataafa is besides an exceptional native. I would scarce dare say
of any Samoan that he is truthful, though I seem to have
encountered the phenomenon; but I must say of Mataafa that he seems
distinctly and consistently averse to lying.
For the affair of the Manono prisoners, the chief justice is only
again in so far answerable as he was at the moment absent from the
seat of his duties; and the blame falls on Baron Senfft von
Pilsach, president of the municipal council. There were in Manono
certain dissidents, loyal to Laupepa. Being Manono people, I
daresay they were very annoying to their neighbours; the majority,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: Snores are the language in which he expresses them.
Interpret the Snore, and you have the psychic his-
tory of the ascent of man from Caliban to Shake-
speare!
"And I can interpret it! I have listened to a
million Snores, and learned the language of the
Soul! Night after night, for years, I harked to
the Human Snore -- in summer, hastening from
park bench to beach and back again; in winter,
haunting the missions and lodging houses. Ah,
Heavens! with what devotion, with what passion
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: he got a certain satisfaction from believing that the citizens
of Lincoln had meekly accepted the epithet `coarse barbarians.'
`You see how it is,' he said to me, `where there is no chivalry,
there is no amour-propre.' When I met him on his rounds now,
I thought he carried his head more disdainfully than ever, and strode
up the steps of front porches and rang doorbells with more assurance.
He told Lena he would never forget how I had stood by him when
he was `under fire.'
All this time, of course, I was drifting. Lena had broken
up my serious mood. I wasn't interested in my classes.
I played with Lena and Prince, I played with the Pole, I went
My Antonia |
