| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: VIVIE [going to the clergyman and shaking his hand] Very glad to
see you here, Mr Gardner. [Calling to the cottage] Mother: come
along: youre wanted.
[Mrs Warren appears on the threshold, and is immediately
transfixed, recognizing the clergyman.]
VIVIE [continuing] Let me introduce--
MRS WARREN [swooping on the Reverend Samuel] Why it's Sam
Gardner, gone into the Church! Well, I never! Dont you know us,
Sam? This is George Crofts, as large as life and twice as
natural. Dont you remember me?
REV. S. [very red] I really--er--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: explained proudly. "We'll start our flier from the lake and leave
the boat as a base to come back to."
"If we come back," I suggested cheerfully.
"`Fraid the ladies will eat you?" he scoffed.
"We're not so sure about those ladies, you know," drawled
Jeff. "There may be a contingent of gentlemen with poisoned
arrows or something."
"You don't need to go if you don't want to," Terry remarked drily.
"Go? You'll have to get an injunction to stop me!" Both Jeff
and I were sure about that.
But we did have differences of opinion, all the long way.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: industry we are overworked and underfed prisoners. Under such absurd
circumstances our judgment of things becomes as perverted as our
habits. If we were habitually underworked and overfed, our notion of
heaven would be a place where everybody worked strenuously for
twenty-four hours a day and never got anything to eat.
Once realize that a perpetual holiday is beyond human endurance, and
that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" and it
will be seen that we have no right to impose a perpetual holiday on
children. If we did, they would soon outdo the Labor Party in their
claim for a Right to Work Bill.
In any case no child should be brought up to suppose that its food and
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