| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: social illusions on which our forefathers had lived for a long
tale of centuries. By destroying them they have dried up the
springs of hope and resignation. Behind the immolated chimeras
they came face to face with the blind and silent forces of
nature, which are inexorable to weakness and ignore pity.
Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as
yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as
they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn
instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians
who accord them what they want. Not truth, but error has always
been the chief factor in the evolution of nations, and the reason
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "Where are Metzar and the other men?"
"Dead! Killed last night. I've been there alone all night. I kept on shootin'.
Then I gets plugged here under the chin. Knowin' it's all up with me I
deserted my post when I heard the Injuns choppin' on the fence where it was on
fire last night. But I only--run--because--they're gettin' in."
"Wetzel, Bennet, Clarke!" yelled Silas, as he laid the boy on the bench.
Almost as Silas spoke the tall form of the hunter confronted him. Clarke and
the other men were almost as prompt.
"Wetzel, run to the south wall. The Indians are cutting a hole through the
fence."
Wetzel turned, grabbed his rifle and an axe and was gone like a flash.
Betty Zane |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury. Such was
the appearance of security and delight which this retirement
afforded, that they to whom it was new always desired that it might
be perpetual; and as those on whom the iron gate had once closed
were never suffered to return, the effect of longer experience
could not be known. Thus every year produced new scenes of
delight, and new competitors for imprisonment.
The palace stood on an eminence, raised about thirty paces above
the surface of the lake. It was divided into many squares or
courts, built with greater or less magnificence according to the
rank of those for whom they were designed. The roofs were turned
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