| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pivot of Civilization by Margaret Sanger: be made, how is any human expression or education possible when women
and men are taught to combat and resist their natural impulses and to
despise their bodily functions?
Humanity, we are glad to realize, is rapidly freeing itself from this
``morality'' imposed upon it by its self-appointed and self-
perpetuating masters. From a hundred different points the imposing
edifice of this ``morality'' has been and is being attacked. Sincere
and thoughtful defenders and exponents of the teachings of Christ now
acknowledge the falsity of the traditional codes and their malignant
influence upon the moral and physical well-being of humanity.
Ecclesiastical opposition to Birth Control on the part of certain
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: withering wind from the gulf. A red haze, like that of earlier
sunsets, seemed to come sweeping on the wind, and it roared up
the arroyo, and went bellowing into the crater, and rushed on
in fury to lash the peaks.
During these hot, windy hours the desert-bound party slept in
deep recesses in the lava; and if necessity brought them forth
they could not remain out long. the sand burned through boots,
and a touch of bare hand on lava raised a blister.
A short while before sundown the Yaqui went forth to build a
campfire, and soon the others came out, heat-dazed, half
blinded, with parching throats to allay and hunger that was
Desert Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: Negroes, and fugitives from Rome. Beside the heavy Dorian dialect were
audible the resonant Celtic syllables rattling like chariots of war,
while Ionian terminations conflicted with consonants of the desert as
harsh as the jackal's cry. The Greek might be recognised by his
slender figure, the Egyptian by his elevated shoulders, the Cantabrian
by his broad calves. There were Carians proudly nodding their helmet
plumes, Cappadocian archers displaying large flowers painted on their
bodies with the juice of herbs, and a few Lydians in women's robes,
dining in slippers and earrings. Others were ostentatiously daubed
with vermilion, and resembled coral statues.
They stretched themselves on the cushions, they ate squatting round
Salammbo |
