| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: not go where I wished, and so - I sent Polly, my maid, to her aunt's
in the country, pretended to go to Seal Harbor, and really went to
Cresson. You see I warned you it would be an unpleasant story."
I went over and stood in front of her. All the accumulated jealousy
of the last few weeks had been fired by what she told me. If
Sullivan had come across the sands just then, I think I would have
strangled him with my hands, out of pure hate.
"Did you marry him?" I demanded. My voice sounded hoarse and strange
in my ears. "That's all I want to know. Did you marry him?"
"No."
I drew a long breath.
The Man in Lower Ten |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: Elves whose love you have won."
"Keep your crown, Lily-Bell, for yonder come the Spirits with their
gifts to Thistle," said the Brownie. And, as he pointed with his
wand, out from among the mossy roots of an old tree came trooping
the Earth Spirits, their flower-bells ringing softly as they came,
and their jewelled garments glittering in the sun. On to where
Thistledown stood beneath the shadow of the flowers, with Lily-Bell
beside him, went the Spirits; and then forth sprang little Sparkle,
waving a golden flower, whose silvery music filled the air. "Dear
Thistle," said the shining Spirit, "what you toiled so faithfully
to win for another, let us offer now as a token of our love for you."
Flower Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world,
hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant
of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and
yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but who
were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that
would one day overturn the world. If there was hope, it lay in the proles!
Without having read to the end of THE BOOK, he knew that that must be
Goldstein's final message. The future belonged to the proles. And could he
be sure that when their time came the world they constructed would not be
just as alien to him, Winston Smith, as the world of the Party? Yes,
because at the least it would be a world of sanity. Where there is
1984 |
