| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: exertion, that other boys were more forward than he, it is not
surprising that he made but little progress during the two years I
had charge of his education. His minute portions of Latin grammar,
&c., were to be repeated over to him, till he chose to say he knew
them, and then he was to be helped to say them; if he made mistakes
in his little easy sums in arithmetic, they were to be shown him at
once, and the sum done for him, instead of his being left to
exercise his faculties in finding them out himself; so that, of
course, he took no pains to avoid mistakes, but frequently set down
his figures at random, without any calculation at all.
I did not invariably confine myself to these rules: it was against
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: is still something to me almost incredible in the idea of a young
Galilean peasant imagining that he could bear on his own shoulders
the burden of the entire world; all that had already been done and
suffered, and all that was yet to be done and suffered: the sins
of Nero, of Caesar Borgia, of Alexander VI., and of him who was
Emperor of Rome and Priest of the Sun: the sufferings of those
whose names are legion and whose dwelling is among the tombs:
oppressed nationalities, factory children, thieves, people in
prison, outcasts, those who are dumb under oppression and whose
silence is heard only of God; and not merely imagining this but
actually achieving it, so that at the present moment all who come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: he asked.
"I did, for an attack of rheumatic neuralgia." Stone eyed him
curiously. "What then, Kent?"
"Is this the box the medicine came in?" and Kent placed the cover
in Stone's hand.
Stone turned the paste-board over and studied the defaced label.
"I cannot answer that question positively," he said. "The label
bears my name and that of the druggist, but the directions are
missing."
"But the number's on it," put in Kent swiftly. "Come, Stone, call
up the druggist, repeat the number to him, and ask if it calls for
The Red Seal |
