| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
By now the guests of Mrs. Gerard had come to the entrees--
Londonderry pheasants, escallops of duck, and rissolettes a la
pompadour. The wine was Chateau Latour.
All around the table conversations were going forward gayly. The
good wines had broken up the slight restraint of the early part
of the evening and a spirit of good humour and good fellowship
prevailed. Young Lambert and Mr. Gerard were deep in
reminiscences of certain mutual duck-shooting expeditions. Mrs.
Gerard and Mrs. Cedarquist discussed a novel--a strange mingling
of psychology, degeneracy, and analysis of erotic conditions--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And whoso commits a fault or a sin and throws it on the innocent, he
hath to bear a calumny and a manifest sin.
Were it not for God's grace upon thee, and His mercy, a party of
them would have tried to lead thee astray; but they only lead
themselves astray; they shall not hurt you in aught: for God hath sent
down upon thee the Book and the wisdom, and taught thee what thou
didst not know, for God's grace was mighty on thee.
There is no good in most of what they talk in private; save in his
who bids almsgiving, or kindness, or reconciliation between men; and
whoso does this, craving the good pleasure of God, we will give to him
a mighty hire.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: organization of the textile industry. The head of this
organization is Nogin, an extremely capable, energetic
Russian, so capable, indeed, that I found it hard to believe
he could really be a Russian. He is a big man, with a mass
of thick brown shaggy hair, so thick that the little bald patch
on the top of his head seems like an artificial tonsure. Nogin
sketched the lines on which the Russian textile industry was
being reorganized, and gave orders that I should be supplied
with all possible printed matter in which to find the details.
The "Centro-Textile" is the actual centre of the economic
life of Russia, because, since textiles are the chief
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