| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: the greatest and most imperative of which are Sex and Hunger. From
the beginning of time, men have been driven by Hunger into a thousand
activities. It is Hunger that has created ``the struggle for
existence.'' Hunger has spurred men to the discovery and invention of
methods and ways of avoiding starvation, of storing and exchanging
foods. It has developed primitive barter into our contemporary Wall
Streets. It has developed thrift and economy,--expedients whereby
humanity avoids the lash of King Hunger. The true ``economic
interpretation of history'' might be termed the History of Hunger.
But no less fundamental, no less imperative, no less ceaseless in its
dynamic energy, has been the great force of Sex. We do not yet know
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul
as well as body, and make a man's passion for one woman differ from
his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and
river and white mountain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns
and glass panels? Will, too, was made of very impressible stuff.
The bow of a violin drawn near him cleverly, would at one stroke
change the aspect of the world for him, and his point of view shifted--
as easily as his mood. Dorothea's entrance was the freshness of morning.
"Well, my dear, this is pleasant, now," said Mr. Brooke, meeting and
kissing her. "You have left Casaubon with his books, I suppose.
That's right. We must not have you getting too learned for a woman,
Middlemarch |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: down with a changed expression upon the handsome, soft-featured
face, framed in curly blond hair, that lay so silent against the
chair-back. Many women had loved this dead man, and many men had
been fond of him, for they had believed him capable and manly.
The commissioner and Muller continued their researches in silence
and with less interest than before. They found a heap of loose
ashes in the bedroom stove. Letters and other trifles had been
burned there. Muller raked out the heap very carefully, but the
writing on the few pieces of paper still left whole was quite
illegible. There were several envelopes in the waste-basket, but
all of them were dated several months back. There was nothing that
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