| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: me an opportunity of examining the bag for the governor's letters.
I found none upon which my name was put as under my care. I picked
out six or seven, that, by the handwriting, I thought might be the
promised letters, especially as one of them was directed to Basket,
the king's printer, and another to some stationer. We arriv'd
in London the 24th of December, 1724. I waited upon the stationer,
who came first in my way, delivering the letter as from Governor Keith.
"I don't know such a person," says he; but, opening the letter, "O! this
is from Riddlesden. I have lately found him to be a compleat rascal,
and I will have nothing to do with him, nor receive any letters
from him." So, putting the letter into my hand, he turn'd on his
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Portrait of a Lady
Thou hast committed--
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
The Jew Of Malta
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Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: others, are in demand; while those he has not are sinking into disuse;
exactly that domination of the reflective faculties over the combative,
which once made him slave, also saved him from becoming extinct in wars;
and the intellectual quickness, the far-sighted keenness, the persistent
mental activity and self-control, which could not in those ages save him
from degradation or compensate for his lack of bone and muscle and
combative instinct, are the very qualities the modern world demands and
crowns. The day of Goliath with his club and his oaths is fast passing,
and the day of David with his harp and skilfully constructed sling is
coming near and yet nearer.
The qualities which give an animal, a race, or an individual, a higher
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