| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: "Thanks, Mr. Fromkin! I know, now, that if it's worth fifty
thousand to you to-day as the `Fromkin Full-flounce Skirt. It
Flares!' then it's worth one hundred and fifty thousand to us as
the `T. A. Buck Balloon-Petticoat. It Billows!' "
And it was.
VI
SISTERS UNDER THEIR SKIN
Women who know the joys and sorrows of a pay envelope do not
speak of girls who work as Working Girls. Neither do they use
the term Laboring Class, as one would speak of a distinct and
separate race, like the Ethiopian.
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: And thou, for whose delight the war-horse first
Sprang from earth's womb at thy great trident's stroke,
Neptune; and haunter of the groves, for whom
Three hundred snow-white heifers browse the brakes,
The fertile brakes of Ceos; and clothed in power,
Thy native forest and Lycean lawns,
Pan, shepherd-god, forsaking, as the love
Of thine own Maenalus constrains thee, hear
And help, O lord of Tegea! And thou, too,
Minerva, from whose hand the olive sprung;
And boy-discoverer of the curved plough;
Georgics |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: from the proportions in which these three generating forces are more
or less intimately combined with the substances they assimilate in the
environment they live in."
He stopped short, struck his forehead, and exclaimed: "How strange! In
every great man whose portrait I have remarked, the neck is short.
Perhaps nature requires that in them the heart should be nearer to the
brain!"
Then he went on:
"From that, a sum-total of action takes its rise which constitutes
social life. The man of sinew contributes action or strength; the man
of brain, genius; the man of heart, faith. But," he added sadly,
Louis Lambert |
