| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: "God knows what's the truth of it all," said Sancho; and knowing
as he did that the transformation of Dulcinea had been a device and
imposition of his own, his master's illusions were not satisfactory to
him; but he did not like to reply lest he should say something that
might disclose his trickery.
As they were engaged in this conversation they were overtaken by a
man who was following the same road behind them, mounted on a very
handsome flea-bitten mare, and dressed in a gaban of fine green cloth,
with tawny velvet facings, and a montera of the same velvet. The
trappings of the mare were of the field and jineta fashion, and of
mulberry colour and green. He carried a Moorish cutlass hanging from a
Don Quixote |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: but on her purchaseable condition, either in the blatantly barbarous field
of sex traffic that lies beyond the pale of legal marriage, or the not less
barbarous though more veiled traffic within that pale, the entrance of
woman into the new fields of labour, with an increased intellectual culture
and economic freedom, means little less than social extinction. But, to
those males who, even at the present day, constitute the majority in our
societies, and who desire the affection and fellowship of woman rather than
a mere material possession; for the male who has the attributes and gifts
of mind or body, which, apart from any weight of material advantage, would
fit him to hold the affection of woman, however great her freedom of
choice, the gain will be correspondingly great. Given a society in which
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Damn the gauger!" echoed old John Rewcastle; "I'll cleave him
wi' my ain hand."
"And confound the country-keeper and the constable!" re-echoed
Westburnflat; "I'll weize a brace of balls through them before
morning."
"We are agreed, then," said Ellieslaw, when the shouts had
somewhat subsided, "to bear this state of things no longer?"
"We are agreed to a man," answered his guests.
"Not literally so," said Mr. Ratcliffe; "for though I cannot hope
to assuage the violent symptoms which seem so suddenly to have
seized upon the company, yet I beg to observe, that so far as the
|
