| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a
heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at
the age of 21 years but of 21 seconds.
The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
The difficulty with children is that they need protection from risks
they are too young to understand, and attacks they can neither avoid
nor resist. You may on academic grounds allow a child to snatch
glowing coals from the fire once. You will not do it twice. The
risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance
and self-helplessness are another matter. Not only children but
adults need protection from them. At present adults are often exposed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: Don't you let Millie have any marmalade to-night. She's got a
spoiled stomach.'
"And then he'd pound off down the hall to wash up, and I'd
shut my eyes, and smile to myself, and everything would be all
right, because he was home."
There was a long silence. Effie's eyes were closed. But two
great tears stole out from beneath each lid and coursed their slow
way down her thin cheeks. She did not raise her hand to wipe them
away.
Gabie's other hand reached over and met the one that already
clasped Effie's.
Buttered Side Down |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings
of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom.
Chapter 20
I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was
just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment,
and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should
leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting
attention to it. As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me which led me
to consider the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before, I was
engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity
had desolated my heart and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse. I was
Frankenstein |
