| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: Why wonder about this? We have not many days
to live. We are walking to the fangs awaiting us
somewhere among the great, silent trees. There is
not a thing behind us to regret.
Then a blow of pain struck us, our first and our only.
We thought of the Golden One. We thought of the Golden One
whom we shall never see again. Then the pain passed.
It is best. We are one of the Damned. It is best
if the Golden One forget our name and the body
which bore that name.
PART EIGHT
Anthem |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: the second time chained in the great detective's boat.
They were shackled wrist to wrist now. To the left leg of one of
them was attached a heavy ball. A similar ball was attached to
the right leg of the other. They had picked these balls up and
were struggling along under their weight at a gait which was more
like a staggering walk than a trot.
They were pursued by the man whom Cleggett had seen attempt to
escape from Morris's. This man still wore his suit of baby blue
pajamas.
He wore nothing else. He was stiff. He moved as if the ground
hurt his bare feet.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: porcelain, so do these black rifts of Africa lurk almost invisible among
the gardens and the houses. The picture that these places offered, tropic,
squalid, and fecund, often caused me to walk through them and watch the
basking population; the intricate, broken wooden galleries, the rickety
outside stair cases, the red and yellow splashes of color on the clothes
lines, the agglomerate rags that stuffed holes in decaying roofs or hung
nakedly on human frames, the small, choked dwellings, bursting open at
doors and windows with black, round-eyed babies as an overripe melon
bursts with seeds, the children playing marbles in the court, the parents
playing cards in the room, the grandparents smoking pipes on the porch,
and the great-grandparents stairs gazing out at you like creatures from
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