| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: Carol studied the woman. She was as imitative as a glass
diamond. She was the more rustic in her effort to appear
urban. She wore a severe high-collared blouse with a row of
small black buttons, which was becoming to her low-breasted
slim neatness, but her skirt was hysterically checkered, her
cheeks were too highly rouged, her lips too sharply penciled.
She was magnificently a specimen of the illiterate divorcee of
forty made up to look thirty, clever, and alluring.
While she was trying on the hat Carol felt very condescending.
She took it off, shook her head, explained with the kind
smile for inferiors, "I'm afraid it won't do, though it's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: Grass. And I was homesick! There's no other country in the world that has
such pleasant houses. And I don't care if they ARE standardized. It's a
corking standard!
"No, what I fight in Zenith is standardization of thought, and, of course, the
traditions of competition. The real villains of the piece are the clean,
kind, industrious Family Men who use every known brand of trickery and cruelty
to insure the prosperity of their cubs. The worst thing about these fellows is
that they're so good and, in their work at least, so intelligent. You can't
hate them properly, and yet their standardized minds are the enemy.
"Then this boosting--Sneakingly I have a notion that Zenith is a better place
to live in than Manchester or Glasgow or Lyons or Berlin or Turin--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: his sociisque eorum bellum inferret. Si [id] ita fecisset, sibi populoque
Romano perpetuam gratiam atque amicitiam cum eo futuram; si non
impetraret, sese, quoniam M. Messala, M. Pisone consulibus senatus
censuisset uti quicumque Galliam provinciam obtineret, quod commodo rei
publicae lacere posset, Haeduos ceterosque amicos populi Romani
defenderet, se Haeduorum iniurias non neglecturum.
Ad haec Ariovistus respondit: ius esse belli ut qui vicissent iis
quos vicissent quem ad modum vellent imperarent. Item populum Romanum
victis non ad alterius praescriptum, sed ad suum arbitrium imperare
consuesse. Si ipse populo Romano non praescriberet quem ad modum suo iure
uteretur, non oportere se a populo Romano in suo iure impediri. Haeduos
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