| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly. The dogs
learned to read fairly well, but were not interested in reading anything
except the Seven Commandments. Muriel, the goat, could read somewhat
better than the dogs, and sometimes used to read to the others in the
evenings from scraps of newspaper which she found on the rubbish heap.
Benjamin could read as well as any pig, but never exercised his faculty.
So far as he knew, he said, there was nothing worth reading. Clover learnt
the whole alphabet, but could not put words together. Boxer could not get
beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his
great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: lives somewhere, ready at the right moment to return to his
beloved people and lead them to victory and happiness."[133]
Everyone is familiar with the numerous legends of
white-skinned, full-bearded heroes, like the mild
Quetzalcoatl, who in times long previous to Columbus came from
the far East to impart the rudiments of civilization and
religion to the red men. By those who first heard these
stories they were supposed, with naive Euhemerism, to refer to
pre-Columbian visits of Europeans to this continent, like that
of the Northmen in the tenth century. But a scientific study
of the subject has dissipated such notions. These legends are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "Seconds! To think of its having come to seconds!"
"I am thinkin' about it. I'm choppin' sixty of 'em off every
minute."
With such chopping time wears away. More miles of the road lay
behind them, and in the virgin wilderness the scars of
new-scraped water ditches began to appear, and the first wire
fences. Next, they were passing cabins and occasional fields, the
outposts of habitation. The free road became wholly imprisoned,
running between unbroken stretches of barbed wire. Far off to the
eastward a flowing column of dust marked the approaching stage,
bringing the bishop, probably, for whose visit here they had
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