| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: to transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the
last bridge.
A double tubular apparatus, provided with valves and sluices,
sucking up and driving back, a system of elementary drainage,
simple as the lungs of a man, and which is already in full working
order in many communities in England, would suffice to conduct
the pure water of the fields into our cities, and to send back
to the fields the rich water of the cities, and this easy exchange,
the simplest in the world, would retain among us the five hundred
millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other things.
The process actually in use does evil, with the intention of doing good.
Les Miserables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: The United States Bill of Rights.
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791
I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
II
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: first that I feared I had been travelling in a circle. But this one seemed
wider, deeper, and there was no roar of rushing water.
It was time to think of making camp, and so I hurried down the slope. At
the bottom I found a small brook winding among boulders and ledges of rock.
The far side of this canyon was steep and craggy. Soon I discovered a place
where I thought it would be safe to build a fire. My clothes were wet, and
the air had grown keen and cold. Gathering a store of wood, I made my fire
in a niche. For a bed I cut some sweet-scented pine boughs (I thought they
must be from a balsam-tree), and these I laid close up in a rocky corner.
Thus I had the fire between me and the opening, and with plenty of wood to
burn I did not fear visits from bears or lions. At last I lay down, dry and
The Young Forester |
