| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: there is no grace of manner, or charm of speech, or civilisation,
or culture, or refinement in pleasures, or joy of life. From their
collective force Humanity gains much in material prosperity. But
it is only the material result that it gains, and the man who is
poor is in himself absolutely of no importance. He is merely the
infinitesimal atom of a force that, so far from regarding him,
crushes him: indeed, prefers him crushed, as in that case he is
far more obedient.
Of course, it might be said that the Individualism generated under
conditions of private property is not always, or even as a rule, of
a fine or wonderful type, and that the poor, if they have not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.'
I think we are in rats' alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.
'What is that noise?'
The wind under the door.
'What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?'
Nothing again nothing. 120
'Do
'You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
'Nothing?'
The Waste Land |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: iron two weeks ago, and triple-locked -- and I've got
the keys."
Tom turned as white as a sheet.
"What's the matter, boy! Here, run, somebody!
Fetch a glass of water!"
The water was brought and thrown into Tom's
face.
"Ah, now you're all right. What was the matter
with you, Tom?"
"Oh, Judge, Injun Joe's in the cave!"
CHAPTER XXXIII
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
