| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: be along right soon, I shouldn't wonder."
"Y'u better go tell the boys Miss Nora don't want her kitchen
littered up with so many of them," suggested his rival.
"Y'u're foreman here. I don't aim to butt into your business,
Mac," grinned back the other, polishing a tea plate with the
towel.
"I want to get some table linen over to Lee Ming to-night," said
Nora, presently.
"Denver, he'll be glad to take it for y'u, Miss Nora. He's real
obliging," offered Mac, generously.
"I've been in the house all day, so I need a walk. I thought
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: weaker peoples?
Poverty indeed IS the strenuous life--without brass bands or
uniforms or hysteric popular applause or lies or circumlocutions;
and when one sees the way in which wealth- getting enters as an
ideal into the very bone and marrow of our generation, one
wonders whether a revival of the belief that poverty is a worthy
religious vocation may not be "the transformation of military
courage," and the spiritual reform which our time stands most in
need of.
Among us English-speaking peoples especially do the praises of
poverty need once more to be boldly sung. We have grown
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: defend me.
FIRST MURDERER. I thought thou hadst been resolute.
SECOND MURDERER. So I am, to let him live.
FIRST MURDERER. I'll back to the Duke of Gloucester and
tell him so.
SECOND MURDERER. Nay, I prithee, stay a little. I hope this
passionate humour of mine will change; it was wont to
hold me but while one tells twenty.
FIRST MURDERER. How dost thou feel thyself now?
SECOND MURDERER. Faith, some certain dregs of conscience
are yet within me.
Richard III |
