| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from I Have A Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.: governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of
interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a
situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to
join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk
together as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places
will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight,
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: ankles to his hips, like a serpent winding about a tree. In his
fingers, which were laden with rings, he held a necklace of jet beads,
so as to recognise the men who were subject to the sacred disease.
Hamilcar signed to him to unfasten the muzzles. Then with the cries of
famished animals they all rushed upon the flour, burying their faces
in the heaps of it and devouring it.
"You are weakening them!" said the Suffet.
Giddenem replied that such treatment was necessary in order to subdue
them.
"It was scarcely worth while sending you to the slaves' school at
Syracuse. Fetch the others!"
Salammbo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: good-humored. "Is the Judge paying for a carload of dead punchers
to gather his beef for him? And this ain't a proposition worth a
man's gettin' hurt for himself, anyway."
"That's so," Shorty assented.
"No," speculated Scipio, as the night drew deeper round us and
the caboose click-clucked and click-clucked over the rail joints;
"he's waitin' for somebody else to open this pot. I'll bet he
don't know but one thing now, and that's that nobody else shall
know he don't know anything."
Scipio had delivered himself. He lighted a cigarette, and no more
wisdom came from him. The night was established. The rolling
The Virginian |
