| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: supper. There is a subtle influence in supper.
THE CRITIC AS ARTIST - WITH SOME REMARKS UPON THE IMPORTANCE OF
DISCUSSING EVERYTHING
A DIALOGUE: Part II. Persons: the same. Scene: the same.
ERNEST. The ortolans were delightful, and the Chambertin perfect,
and now let us return to the point at issue.
GILBERT. Ah! don't let us do that. Conversation should touch
everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. Let us talk
about MORAL INDIGNATION, ITS CAUSE AND CURE, a subject on which I
think of writing: or about THE SURVIVAL OF THERSITES, as shown by
the English comic papers; or about any topic that may turn up.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: all classes. The language of the law thus becomes, in some
measure, a vulgar tongue; the spirit of the law, which is
produced in the schools and courts of justice, gradually
penetrates beyond their walls into the bosom of society, where it
descends to the lowest classes, so that the whole people
contracts the habits and the tastes of the magistrate. The
lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little
feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to
itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the
exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the
movements of the social body; but this party extends over the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead
of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the
deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage
the arts and commerce. Let both sides unite to heed in all corners
of the earth the command of Isaiah. . .to "undo the heavy burdens. . .
let the oppressed go free."
And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion. . .
let both sides join in creating not a new balance of power. . .
but a new world of law. . .where the strong are just. . .
and the weak secure. . .and the peace preserved. . . .
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.
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