| 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: murder and rapine at worst, and, at best, lead to quarrels and
undesirable states of consciousness.
Even when this excuse of bad manners, ill temper, and brutishness (for
that is what it comes to) compels us to accept it from those adults
among whom political and theological discussion does as a matter of
fact lead to the drawing of knives and pistols, and sex discussion
leads to obscenity, it has no application to children except as an
imperative reason for training them to respect other people's
opinions, and to insist on respect for their own in these as in other
important matters which are equally dangerous: for example, money.
And in any case there are decisive reasons; superior, like the reasons
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: list? I have a particular reason for asking you.
LADY CHILTERN. I am sure Mr. Trafford will be able to give you one.
LORD GORING. Thanks, so much.
MABEL CHILTERN. Tommy is the most useful person in London.
LORD GORING [Turning to her.] And who is the most ornamental?
MABEL CHILTERN [Triumphantly.] I am.
LORD GORING. How clever of you to guess it! [Takes up his hat and
cane.] Good-bye, Lady Chiltern! You will remember what I said to
you, won't you?
LADY CHILTERN. Yes; but I don't know why you said it to me.
LORD GORING. I hardly know myself. Good-bye, Miss Mabel!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: running into the room with drawn swords and bills, and little
Myles, crying out with terror, hid his face in his father's long
gown.
The next instant came the sound of a heavy blow and of a groan,
then another blow and the sound of one falling upon the ground.
Then the clashing of steel, and in the midst Lord Falworth
crying, in a dreadful voice, "Thou traitor! thou coward! thou
murderer!"
Master Robert snatched Myles away from his father, and bore him
out of the room in spite of his screams and struggles, and he
remembered just one instant's sight of Sir John lying still and
Men of Iron |
