| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Myles saw Gascoyne direct a sharp glance at him; but he answered
nothing either to his enemy's words or his friend's look.
As the bachelor had said, Blunt came the next morning. It was
just after chapel, and the whole body of squires was gathered in
the armory waiting for the orders of the day and the calling of
the roll of those chosen for household duty. Myles was sitting on
a bench along the wall, talking and jesting with some who stood
by, when of a sudden his heart gave a great leap within him.
It was Walter Blunt. He came walking in at the door as if nothing
had passed, and at his unexpected coming the hubbub of talk and
laughter was suddenly checked. Even Myles stopped in his speech
Men of Iron |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: perishes for the reason that being All-Powerful He chose to combat.
Secondly, in the absurd pantheism where, all being God, God exists no
longer. These two sources, from which have flowed all the religions
for whose triumph Earth has toiled and prayed, are equally pernicious.
Behold in them the double-bladed axe with which you decapitate the
white old man whom you enthrone among your painted clouds! And now, to
me the axe, I wield it!"
Monsieur Becker and Wilfrid gazed at the young girl with something
like terror.
"To believe," continued Seraphita, in her Woman's voice, for the Man
had finished speaking, "to believe is a gift. To believe is to feel.
Seraphita |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: neither the vigour of intellect nor the vitality of body to undertake any
form of productive labour, and desiring to be dependent only upon the
passive performance of sex function merely, would, whether as prostitute or
wife, undoubtedly lose heavily by any social change which demanded of woman
increased knowledge and activity. (She would lose in two directions: by
the social disapprobation which, as the new conditions became general,
would rest on her; and yet more by the competition of the more developed
forms. She would practically become non-existent.)
It is exactly by these two classes of persons that the objection is raised
that the entrance of woman into the new fields of labour and her increased
freedom and intelligence will dislocate the relations of the sexes; and,
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