| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: a little silly; but when she had once looked down on
her apron-strings, as all modest young women us'd to
do, and drawled out ye-s, she was as brisk and as
merry as a bee.
MARIA
My honoured mother, Sir, had no motive to mel-
ancholy; she married the man of her choice.
VAN ROUGH
The man of her choice! And pray, Mary, an't you
going to marry the man of your choice--what trum-
pery notion is this? It is these vile books [throwing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: "We."
When men accepted that worship,
the structure of centuries collaped
about them, the structure whose every beam
had come from the thought of some one man,
each in his day down the ages, from the depth
of some one spirit, such spirit as existed
but for its own sake. Those men who survived
those eager to obey, eager to live for one
another, since they had nothing else to
vindicate them--those men could neither carry
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: In personal duty, following where he haunted:
Consents bewitch'd, ere he desire, have granted;
And dialogued for him what he would say,
Ask'd their own wills, and made their wills obey.
'Many there were that did his picture get,
To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind;
Like fools that in the imagination set
The goodly objects which abroad they find
Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign'd;
And labouring in mo pleasures to bestow them,
Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:
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