| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: so suddenly on the walk.
Then the little girl said: ``She isn't hurt at all. She is just
crying.''
Sister Mary Felice said: ``But you threw her down. You must tell
her you are sorry.''
Then the little girl said: ``But I didn't mean to throw her down.''
``But,'' Sister Mary Felice said, ``you did trip her up, and you must
beg her pardon.''
Then Sister Theckla came to take all the little girls to the room
where so many chairs sat in so many rows, and she too said: ``Yes,
you must beg her pardon.''
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is
free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
"But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land
of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell
upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is
fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance
to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This
single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of
sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now
almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable
condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: GORGIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: I was thinking at the time, when I heard you saying so, that
rhetoric, which is always discoursing about justice, could not possibly be
an unjust thing. But when you added, shortly afterwards, that the
rhetorician might make a bad use of rhetoric I noted with surprise the
inconsistency into which you had fallen; and I said, that if you thought,
as I did, that there was a gain in being refuted, there would be an
advantage in going on with the question, but if not, I would leave off.
And in the course of our investigations, as you will see yourself, the
rhetorician has been acknowledged to be incapable of making an unjust use
of rhetoric, or of willingness to do injustice. By the dog, Gorgias, there
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