| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: frozen linen had hung (which, however, was no longer to be
seen), past the same barn, which was now snowed up almost to
the roof and from which the snow was still endlessly pouring
past the same dismally moaning, whistling, and swaying willows,
and again entered into the sea of blustering snow raging from
above and below. The wind was so strong that when it blew from
the side and the travellers steered against it, it tilted the
sledges and turned the horses to one side. Petrushka drove his
good mare in front at a brisk trot and kept shouting lustily.
Mukhorty pressed after her.
After travelling so for about ten minutes, Petrushka turned
Master and Man |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: plans. In any event we must finally reckon work, not as the curse our
schools and prisons and capitalist profit factories make it seem
today, but as a prime necessity of a tolerable existence. And if we
cannot devise fresh wants as fast as we develop the means of supplying
them, there will come a scarcity of the needed, cut-and-dried,
appointed work that is always ready to everybody's hand. It may have
to be shared out among people all of whom want more of it. And then a
new sort of laziness will become the bugbear of society: the laziness
that refuses to face the mental toil and adventure of making work by
inventing new ideas or extending the domain of knowledge, and insists
on a ready-made routine. It may come to forcing people to retire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: with Alas! Alas! That dear Madam Mina should suffer!"
He stopped, his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage
or terror predominated in my own heart.
Outside the Harkers' door we paused. Art and Quincey held back,
and the latter said, "Should we disturb her?"
"We must," said Van Helsing grimly. "If the door be locked,
I shall break it in."
"May it not frighten her terribly? It is unusual to break
into a lady's room!"
Van Helsing said solemnly, "You are always right.
But this is life and death. All chambers are alike to the doctor.
Dracula |
