| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: face; "it's because you're not a big enough swell, you know! He'll be a
colonel, or a general, before we've done with him. I call them all
generals or colonels up here; it's safest, you know; if they're not that
today they will be tomorrow!"
This was intended as a joke, and in that hot weather, and in that dull
world, anything was good enough to laugh at: the third man smiled, but the
first speaker remained serious.
"I only know this," he said, "I'd teach these fellows a lesson, if any one
belonging to me had been among the people they left to be murdered here,
while they went gallivanting to the Transvaal. If my mother or sister had
been killed here, I'd have taken a pistol and blown out the brains of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: I had intended to give the particulars of this ease, but find the
drudgery of repeating such stuff too sickening, and the effect unjust
to a man who was doing only what others all over the country were
doing as part of the established routine of what is called education.
The astounding part of it was the manner in which the person to whom
this outrage on decency seemed quite proper and natural claimed to be
a functionary of high character, and had his claim allowed. In Japan
he would hardly have been allowed the privilege of committing suicide.
What is to be said of a profession in which such obscenities are made
points of honor, or of institutions in which they are an accepted part
of the daily routine? Wholesome people would not argue about the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: years of association with the men of Manator." The statement was
half challenge.
"And my Jed stood before me now," cried Tasor, "and my avowal
could be made without violating his confidence, I should cast my
sword at his feet and beg the high privilege of dying for him as
my sire died for his sire."
There could be no doubt of his sincerity nor any that he was
cognizant of Gahan's identity. The Jed of Gathol smiled. "And if
your Jed were here there is little doubt but that he would
command you to devote your talents and your prowess to the rescue
of the Princess Tara of Helium," he said, meaningly. "And he
The Chessmen of Mars |
