| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: especially the honest Quaker, who proved a faithful, generous,
and steady friend to us; and we had very good success, for
having a flourishing stock to begin with, as I have said, and
this being now increased by the addition of #150 sterling in
money, we enlarged our number of servants, built us a very
good house, and cured every year a great deal of land. The
second year I wrote to my old governess, giving her part with
us of the joy of our success, and order her how to lay out the
money I had left with her, which was #250 as above, and to
send it to us in goods, which she performed with her usual
kindness and fidelity, and this arrived safe to us.
Moll Flanders |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: my husband's fondness for women was of the grossest kind, and
imagination was so wholly out of the question, as to render his
indulgences of this sort entirely promiscuous, and of the most
brutal nature. My health suffered, before my heart was entirely
estranged by the loathsome information; could I then have returned
to his sullied arms, but as a victim to the prejudices of mankind,
who have made women the property of their husbands? I discovered
even, by his conversation, when intoxicated that his favourites
were wantons of the lowest class, who could by their vulgar,
indecent mirth, which he called nature, rouse his sluggish spirits.
Meretricious ornaments and manners were necessary to attract his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
JOH 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,
and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
JOH 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him:
for they know not the voice of strangers.
JOH 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not
what things they were which he spake unto them.
JOH 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, I am the door of the sheep.
JOH 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
sheep did not hear them.
King James Bible |
