| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: intending it--you are in the wrong. If you'd 'a' studied
natural history the way you ought, you would know that
all over the world except just here in Arkansaw they
ALWAYS hunt strawberries with a dog--and a lantern--"
But she busted in on him there and just piled into him
and snowed him under. She was so mad she couldn't get
the words out fast enough, and she gushed them out
in one everlasting freshet. That was what Tom Sawyer
was after. He allowed to work her up and get her started
and then leave her alone and let her burn herself out.
Then she would be so aggravated with that subject
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: secondly, that if the plan could be carried into execution we should be
poorly recompensed by improvements in the breed for the loss of the best
things in life. The greatest regard for the weakest and meanest of human
beings--the infant, the criminal, the insane, the idiot, truly seems to us
one of the noblest results of Christianity. We have learned, though as yet
imperfectly, that the individual man has an endless value in the sight of
God, and that we honour Him when we honour the darkened and disfigured
image of Him (Laws). This is the lesson which Christ taught in a parable
when He said, 'Their angels do always behold the face of My Father which is
in heaven.' Such lessons are only partially realized in any age; they were
foreign to the age of Plato, as they have very different degrees of
The Republic |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This
dismal shade must separate me from the world: even you,
Elizabeth, can never come behind it!"
"What grievous affliction hath befallen you," she earnestly
inquired, "that you should thus darken your eyes forever?"
"If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps,
like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified
by a black veil."
"But what if the world will not believe that it is the type of an
innocent sorrow?" urged Elizabeth. "Beloved and respected as you
are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the
Twice Told Tales |
