| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: sexes, and therefore the women have the disadvantage; but I
am far from granting that the number of women is so great,
or the number of men so small; but if they will have me tell
the truth, the disadvantage of the women is a terrible scandal
upon the men, and it lies here, and here only; namely, that the
age is so wicked, and the sex so debauched, that, in short, the
number of such men as an honest woman ought to meddle
with is small indeed, and it is but here and there that a man is
to be found who is fit for a woman to venture upon.
But the consequence even of that too amounts to no more
than this, that women ought to be the more nice; for how do
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: said the eldest sister, glancing a look at young Earnscliff.
"Weel, weel, woman, hasna every dog his day, begging Earnscliff's
pardon for the auld saying--Mayna I hae his luck, and he mine,
another time?--It's a braw thing for a man to be out a' day, and
frighted--na, I winna say that neither but mistrysted wi' bogles
in the hame-coming, an' then to hae to flyte wi' a wheen women
that hae been doing naething a' the live-lang day, but whirling a
bit stick, wi' a thread trailing at it, or boring at a clout."
"Frighted wi' bogles!" exclaimed the females, one and all,--for
great was the regard then paid, and perhaps still paid, in these
glens, to all such fantasies.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: the portion of their fellows, but let them not hurry me!
Then woe to those who misbelieve from their day which they are
threatened.
THE CHAPTER OF THE MOUNT
(LII. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the mount! by the Book inscribed upon an outstretched vellum!
by the frequented house! by the elevated roof! by the swelling sea!
verily, the torment of thy Lord will come to pass;-there is none to
avert it!
The day when the heavens shall reel about, and the mountains shall
The Koran |
