| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: honey, can't you see that such a man will only drag you
down, down to his level? Can it be possible that you--
that you really love him?"
"I adore him and I'm proud of his love!"
"Now listen! You believe in an indissoluble
marriage, don't you?"
"Yes----"
"It's the first article of your creed--that
marriage is a holy sacrament, that no power on earth or
in hell can ever dissolve its bonds? Fools rush in
where angels fear to tread, my dear! They always
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Rosin. Good my Lord, what is your cause of distemper?
You do freely barre the doore of your owne Libertie,
if you deny your greefes to your Friend
Ham. Sir I lacke Aduancement
Rosin. How can that be, when you haue the voyce of
the King himselfe, for your Succession in Denmarke?
Ham. I, but while the grasse growes, the Prouerbe is
something musty.
Enter one with a Recorder.
O the Recorder. Let me see, to withdraw with you, why
do you go about to recouer the winde of mee, as if you
Hamlet |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: turned the two of them into accomplices. They had continued to stroll
slowly down the corridor, but now O'Brien halted. With the curious,
disarming friendliness that he always managed to put in to the gesture he
resettled his spectacles on his nose. Then he went on:
'What I had really intended to say was that in your article I noticed you
had used two words which have become obsolete. But they have only become
so very recently. Have you seen the tenth edition of the Newspeak
Dictionary?'
'No,' said Winston. 'I didn't think it had been issued yet. We are still
using the ninth in the Records Department.'
'The tenth edition is not due to appear for some months, I believe. But a
1984 |
