| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: not permit anyone to criticize you in my hearing. But, oh,
Scarlett!" Suddenly words began to bubble out, swift hot words and
there was inflexible hate in the low voice. "Can you forget what
these people did to us? Can you forget darling Charlie dead and
Ashley's health ruined and Twelve Oaks burned? Oh, Scarlett, you
can't forget that terrible man you shot with your mother's sewing
box in his hands! You can't forget Sherman's men at Tara and how
they even stole our underwear! And tried to burn the place down
and actually handled my father's sword! Oh, Scarlett, it was these
same people who robbed us and tortured us and left us to starve
that you invited to your party! The same people who have set the
Gone With the Wind |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: temperament, would have to write not for the artistic joy of
writing, but for the amusement of half-educated people, and so
would have to suppress his individualism, forget his culture,
annihilate his style, and surrender everything that is valuable in
him. In the case of the drama, things are a little better: the
theatre-going public like the obvious, it is true, but they do not
like the tedious; and burlesque and farcical comedy, the two most
popular forms, are distinct forms of art. Delightful work may be
produced under burlesque and farcical conditions, and in work of
this kind the artist in England is allowed very great freedom. It
is when one comes to the higher forms of the drama that the result
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: for we met several ships bound to Europe, whereof two were French,
from St. Christopher's, but they had been so long beating up
against the wind that they durst take in no passengers, for fear of
wanting provisions for the voyage, as well for themselves as for
those they should take in; so we were obliged to go on. It was
about a week after this that we made the banks of Newfoundland;
where, to shorten my story, we put all our French people on board a
bark, which they hired at sea there, to put them on shore, and
afterwards to carry them to France, if they could get provisions to
victual themselves with. When I say all the French went on shore,
I should remember that the young priest I spoke of, hearing we were
Robinson Crusoe |
