| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: by peering closely between the leaves. He
could see the empty path a long way in the
moonlight. His mind traveled ahead to the
stile, which he always thought of as haunted
by Emil Bergson. But why had he left his
horse?
At the wheatfield corner, where the orchard
hedge ended and the path led across the pasture
to the Bergsons', Frank stopped. In the warm,
breathless night air he heard a murmuring
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed
to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or
they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have
used force, and once again were overthrown. They fell, that is to say,
either through consciousness or through unconsciousness. It is the
achievement of the Party to have produced a system of thought in which
both conditions can exist simultaneously. And upon no other intellectual
basis could the dominion of the Party be made permanent. If one is to rule,
and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.
For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own
infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.
1984 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: necessary for saying mass: in this vessel we reached the coast,
which we found inhabited by several nations: each nation is subject
to its own king; these petty monarchies are so numerous, that I
counted at least ten in less than four leagues.
Chapter II
The author lands: The difficulty of his journey. An account of the
Galles, and of the author's reception at the king's tent; Their
manner of swearing, and of letting blood. The author returns to the
Indies, and finds the patriarch of Aethiopia.
On this coast we landed, with an intention of travelling on foot to
Jubo, a journey of much greater length and difficulty than we
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