| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: from her face, catching sight, as he did so, of the gold mesh bag
lying in her lap. The glint of sunlight brought into prominence
the handsomely engraved letter "B" on its surface. An unexpected
swerve of the limousine, as the chauffeur turned short to avoid a
speeding army truck, caused both Kent and Mrs. Brewster to sway
forward and the gold mesh bag slid to the floor, carrying with it
the widow's handkerchief and gold vanity box. Kent stooped over
and picked up the articles as well as the contents of the mesh bag,
which had opened in its descent and spilled her money and papers
over the floor of the limousine.
"Oh, thank you," exclaimed Mrs. Brewster, as he handed her the bag,
The Red Seal |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages,
and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the
discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and
everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the
hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship
of Big Brother--it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their
ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against
foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal
for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with
good reason, for hardly a week passed in which 'The Times' did not carry
a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak--'child hero'
1984 |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: They were so excessively alive, these pigs. And then, they were
so excessively dead, and the man in the dripping, clammy, not
passage did not seem to care, and ere the blood of such a one had
ceased to foam on the floor, such another and four friends with
him had shrieked and died. But a pig is only the unclean
animal--the forbidden of the prophet.
VI
The American Army
I SHOULD very much like to deliver a dissertation on the American
army and the possibilities of its extension. You see, it is such
a beautiful little army, and the dear people don't quite
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