| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: of Sundays."
Again, and Paul could understand him least then, he was jocular
and in high spirits.
"I'm going to bring my little Yorkshire terrier bitch tomorrow,"
he said jubilantly to Paul.
"What's a Yorkshire terrier?"
"DON'T know what a Yorkshire terrier is? DON'T KNOW A YORKSHIRE---"
Mr. Pappleworth was aghast.
"Is it a little silky one--colours of iron and rusty silver?"
"THAT'S it, my lad. She's a gem. She's had five pounds'
worth of pups already, and she's worth over seven pounds herself;
Sons and Lovers |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: throw away our candles and our torches.
Let us flood our cities with light.
Let us bring a new light to men!"
But they looked upon us, and suddenly
we were afraid. For their eyes were still,
and small, and evil.
"Our brothers!" we cried. "Have you
nothing to say to us?"
Then Collective 0-0009 moved forward.
They moved to the table and the others followed.
"Yes," spoke Collective 0-0009,
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: it must not matter to us whether we live or die,
which is to be as our brothers will it.
But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living.
If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.
Yet our brothers are not like us. All is
not well with our brothers. There are
Fraternity 2-5503, a quiet boy with wise,
kind eyes, who cry suddenly, without reason,
in the midst of day or night, and their
body shakes with sobs they cannot explain.
There are Solidarity 9-6347, who are a
Anthem |
