| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: And we sighed, as if a burden had been
taken from us, for we had been thinking
without reason of the Palace of Mating.
And we thought that we would not let the
Golden One be sent to the Palace. How to
prevent it, how to bar the will of the
Councils, we knew not, but we knew suddenly
that we would. Only we do not know why
such thought came to us, for these ugly
matters bear no relation to us and the
Golden One. What relation can they bear?
Anthem |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: THE MAN. _[intolerantly]_ No. All false. All. If thou deny it,
thou liest.
THE BEEFEATER. You judge too much by the Court, sir. There, indeed,
you may say of frailty that its name is woman.
THE MAN. _[pulling out his tablets again]_ Prithee say that again:
that about frailty: the strain of music.
THE BEEFEATER. What strain of music, sir? I'm no musician, God
knows.
THE MAN. There is music in your soul: many of your degree have it
very notably. _[Writing]_ "Frailty: thy name is woman!"
_[Repeating it affectionately]_ "Thy name is woman."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: with a delicate finish of feature and an expression at once
urbane and not at all serious, a warm blue eye, an eyebrow finely
drawn and excessively arched--an eyebrow which, if ladies wrote
sonnets to those of their lovers, might have been made the subject
of such a piece of verse--and a light moustache that flourished
upwards as if blown that way by the breath of a constant smile.
There was something in his physiognomy at once benevolent
and picturesque. But, as I have hinted, it was not at all serious.
The young man's face was, in this respect, singular; it was not at
all serious, and yet it inspired the liveliest confidence.
"Be sure you put in plenty of snow," said his sister.
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