| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: and their breath was a moan,
and then their arms closed around us.
We stood together for a long time.
And we were frightened that we had lived
for twenty-one years and had never known
what joy is possible to men.
Then we said:
"Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest.
There is no danger in solitude. We have
no need of our brothers. Let us forget
their good and our evil, let us forget
Anthem |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: distributed throughout the district; such an organization, which
would render possible frequent consultations and free control on
a big scale, would completely meet my views. But I imagined the
lunches, the dinners, the suppers and the noise, the waste of
time, the verbosity and the bad taste which that mixed provincial
company would inevitably bring into my house, and I made haste to
reject my idea.
As for the members of my own household, the last thing I could
look for was help or support from them. Of my father's household,
of the household of my childhood, once a big and noisy family, no
one remained but the governess Mademoiselle Marie, or, as she was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: The man whose soul and brain he had been for six months never even
sent to inquire after him. Marcas expressed the greatest contempt for
the Government; he seemed to doubt what the fate of France might be,
and it was this doubt that had made him ill. He had, he thought,
detected treason in the heart of power, not tangible, seizable
treason, the result of facts, but the treason of a system, the
subordination of national interests to selfish ends. His belief in the
degradation of the country was enough to aggravate his complaint.
I myself was witness to the proposals made to him by one of the
leaders of the antagonistic party which he had fought against. His
hatred of the men he had tried to serve was so virulent, that he would
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