| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: successful: we might as well try to suppress oxygen. But it is
carried far enough to inflict on huge numbers of people a most
injurious art starvation, and to corrupt a great deal of the art that
is tolerated. You will find in England plenty of rich families with
little more culture than their dogs and horses. And you will find
poor families, cut off by poverty and town life from the contemplation
of the beauty of the earth, with its dresses of leaves, its scarves of
cloud, and its contours of hill and valley, who would positively be
happier as hogs, so little have they cultivated their humanity by the
only effective instrument of culture: art. The dearth is
artificially maintained even when there are the means of satisfying
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I should answer your inquiries
Straightway in such words as follow.
"In the vale of Tawasentha,
In the green and silent valley,
By the pleasant water-courses,
Dwelt the singer Nawadaha.
Round about the Indian village
Spread the meadows and the corn-fields,
And beyond them stood the forest,
Stood the groves of singing pine-trees,
Green in Summer, white in Winter,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: still it may be of some use."
"Everything that would throw light on the dead man's life could be
of use," said Dr. von Riedau. "Please tell us what it is you know."
Fritz Bormann began: "Winkler came to the office as usual on Monday
morning and worked steadily at his desk. But I happened to notice
that he spoiled several letters and had to rewrite them, which
showed me that his thoughts were not on his work, a frequent
occurrence with him. However, everything went along as usual until
11 o'clock. Then Winkler became very uneasy. He looked constantly
toward the door, compared his watch with the office clock, and
sprang up impatiently as the special letter carrier, who usually
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