| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: stretch of clear dry weather, and the animals toiled harder than ever,
thinking it well worth while to plod to and fro all day with blocks of
stone if by doing so they could raise the walls another foot. Boxer would
even come out at nights and work for an hour or two on his own by the
light of the harvest moon. In their spare moments the animals would walk
round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and
perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have
been able to build anything so imposing. Only old Benjamin refused to grow
enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing
beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time.
November came, with raging south-west winds. Building had to stop because
Animal Farm |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the choral, "How lovely shines the Morning Star!" Then follows
the sublime scene from Matthew xvi. 14-18, where Peter declares
his master to be "the Christ, the Son of the living God,"--one of
the most impressive scenes, we have always thought, in the gospel
history, and here not inadequately treated. The feeling of
mysterious and awful grandeur awakened by Peter's bold
exclamation, "Thou art the Christ," is powerfully rendered by the
entrance of the trombones upon the inverted subdominant triad of
C-sharp minor, and their pause upon the dominant of the same key.
Throughout this scene the characteristic contrast between the
ardent vigour of Peter and the sweet serenity of Jesus is well
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to,
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