| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: between those germs which are ultimately to become male or female. Later,
in the foetal life, at birth, and through infancy though the organs of sex
serve to distinguish the male from the female, there is in the general
structure and working of the organism little or nothing to divide the
sexes.
Even when puberty is reached, with its enormous development of sexual and
reproductive activity modifying those parts of the organism with which it
is concerned, and producing certain secondary sexual characteristics, there
yet remains the major extent of the human body and of physical function
little, or not at all, affected by sex modification. The eye, the ear, the
sense of touch, the general organs of nutrition and respiration and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: me nothing to say, that looked like despair, or doubting of
being accepted; and in this condition he left me the first night.
He visited me again the next morning, and went on with his
method of explaining the terms of divine mercy, which
according to him consisted of nothing more, or more difficult,
than that of being sincerely desirous of it, and willing to accept
it; only a sincere regret for, and hatred of, those things I had
done, which rendered me so just an object of divine vengeance.
I am not able to repeat the excellent discourses of this
extraordinary man; 'tis all that I am able to do, to say that he
revived my heart, and brought me into such a condition that
Moll Flanders |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,
An indigested and deformed lump,
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou cam'st to bite the world;
And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
Thou cam'st--
GLOSTER.
I'll hear no more. Die, prophet, in thy speech.
[Stabs him.]
For this, amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.
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