| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: defending the cause of my king than in protecting this breast.
(He retires by the centre door, followed by the guard and Alva's son. Alva
remains standing while the curtain falls.)
ACT V
Scene I.--A Street. Twilight
Clara, Brackenburg, Burghers
Brackenburg. Dearest, for Heaven's sake, what wouldst thou do?
Clara. Come with me, Brackenburg! Thou canst not know the people, we
are certain to rescue him; for what can equal their love for him? Each
feels, I could swear it, the burning desire to deliver him, to avert danger
from a life so precious, and to restore freedom to the most free. Come! A
Egmont |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: the one window through which we see into the great world of earnest labour.
The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her
children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only
education we have and which they cannot take from us."
She smiled slightly. "They say that we complain of woman's being compelled
to look upon marriage as a profession; but that she is free to enter upon
it or leave it, as she pleases.
"Yes--and a cat set afloat in a pond is free to sit in the tub till it dies
there, it is under no obligation to wet its feet; and a drowning man may
catch at a straw or not, just as he likes--it is a glorious liberty! Let
any man think for five minutes of what old maidenhood means to a woman--and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Penguins, attacked in a body,
retaliate savagely with their beaks, and our ears now made certain
the existence of a rookery far beyond. Had those others disturbed
such a place and aroused murderous pursuit? The obstructions did
not suggest it, for penguins’ beaks against the tough tissues
Lake had dissected could hardly account for the terrible damage
our approaching glance was beginning to make out. Besides, the
huge blind birds we had seen appeared to be singularly peaceful.
Had there, then, been a struggle among those others, and were
the absent four responsible? If so, where were they? Were they
close at hand and likely to form an immediate menace to us? We
At the Mountains of Madness |
