| 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: corporation, the humblest employees of the committee find defenders if
they complain of harsh treatment. Gratuities are voted, indulgences
and holidays are pleaded for, delinquencies are excused in the most
sentimental manner provided only the employee, however patent a
hypocrite or incorrigible a slacker, is hat in hand. But let the most
obvious measure of justice be demanded by the secretary of a Trade
Union in terms which omit all expressions of subservience, and it is
with the greatest difficulty that the cooler-headed can defeat angry
motions that the letter be thrown into the waste paper basket and the
committee proceed to the next business.
The Demagogue's Opportunity
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: left you something as a memento. It was a thing he prized very
much. I will get it for you.
As soon as she had left the room I turned to the doctor and said,
'What a dreadful shock it must have been to Lady Erskine! I wonder
that she bears it as well as she does.'
'Oh, she knew for months past that it was coming,' he answered.
'Knew it for months past!' I cried. 'But why didn't she stop him?
Why didn't she have him watched? He must have been mad.'
The doctor stared at me. 'I don't know what you mean,' he said.
'Well,' I cried, 'if a mother knows that her son is going to commit
suicide - '
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: the little things he has given one, and promised never to
communicate with one again, or to write one any foolish letters, he
should be perfectly broken-hearted, and telegraph to one all day
long, and send one little notes every half-hour by a private
hansom, and dine quite alone at the club, so that every one should
know how unhappy he was. And after a whole dreadful week, during
which one has gone about everywhere with one's husband, just to
show how absolutely lonely one was, he may be given a third last
parting, in the evening, and then, if his conduct has been quite
irreproachable, and one has behaved really badly to him, he should
be allowed to admit that he has been entirely in the wrong, and
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