| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of
and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws;
giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders
which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:
United States Declaration of Independence |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: those who have had the opportunity of loving in both countries
declare. When a Frenchwoman loves she is metamorphosed; her noted
coquetry is used to deck her love; she abandons her dangerous vanity
and lays no claim to any merit but that of loving well. She espouses
the interests, the hatreds, the friendships, of the man she loves; she
acquires in a day the experience of a man of business; she studies the
code, she comprehends the mechanism of credit, and could manage a
banker's office; naturally heedless and prodigal, she will make no
mistakes and waste not a single louis. She becomes, in turn, mother,
adviser, doctor, giving to all her transformations a grace of
happiness which reveals, in its every detail, her infinite love. She
The Lily of the Valley |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: bedroom and took his murderous 405 Winches-
ter from the closet.
When Frank took up his gun and walked out
of the house, he had not the faintest purpose of
doing anything with it. He did not believe that
he had any real grievance. But it gratified him
to feel like a desperate man. He had got into
the habit of seeing himself always in desperate
straits. His unhappy temperament was like a
cage; he could never get out of it; and he felt
O Pioneers! |
