| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: "You look as if you'd been on a vacation, instead of a test
trip."
"So I have. Why didn't you warn me that business, as
transacted in New York, is a series of social rites? I
didn't have enough white kid gloves to go round. No one
will talk business in an office. I don't see what they use
offices for, except as places in which to receive their
mail. You utter the word `Business,' and the other person
immediately says, `Lunch.' No wholesaler seems able to
quote you his prices until he has been sustained by half a
dozen Cape Cods. I don't want to see a restaurant or a rose
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: of a peasant or a child; as I would I could suppose that you do.
For this, I wonder at him some way off; and had that been his only
character, should have avoided him in life. But the point of
interest in Damien, which has caused him to be so much talked about
and made him at last the subject of your pen and mine, was that, in
him, his bigotry, his intense and narrow faith, wrought potently
for good, and strengthened him to be one of the world's heroes and
exemplars.
Damien WAS NOT SENT TO MOLOKAI, BUT WENT THERE WITHOUT ORDERS.
Is this a misreading? or do you really mean the words for blame? I
have heard Christ, in the pulpits of our Church, held up for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: truth where it is at all of difficult discovery, as in such cases it is
much more likely that it will be found by one than by many. I could,
however, select from the crowd no one whose opinions seemed worthy of
preference, and thus I found myself constrained, as it were, to use my own
reason in the conduct of my life.
But like one walking alone and in the dark, I resolved to proceed so
slowly and with such circumspection, that if I did not advance far, I
would at least guard against falling. I did not even choose to dismiss
summarily any of the opinions that had crept into my belief without having
been introduced by reason, but first of all took sufficient time carefully
to satisfy myself of the general nature of the task I was setting myself,
Reason Discourse |
