| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Deare love, but losse of deare love!
THESEUS.
Never Fortune
Did play a subtler Game: The conquerd triumphes,
The victor has the Losse: yet in the passage
The gods have beene most equall: Palamon,
Your kinseman hath confest the right o'th Lady
Did lye in you, for you first saw her, and
Even then proclaimd your fancie: He restord her
As your stolne Iewell, and desir'd your spirit
To send him hence forgiven; The gods my justice
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: were American business men--salesmen, some of them, promoters
others, or representatives of big syndicates shrewd, alert, well
dressed, smooth shaven. Emma McChesney knew that she would gain
valuable information from many of them before the trip was over.
She sighed a little regretfully as she thought of those
smoking-room talks--those intimate, tobacco-mellowed business
talks from which she would be barred by her sex.
There were two engineers, one British, one American, both very
intelligent-looking, both inclined to taciturnity, as is often
the case in men of their profession. They walked a good deal,
and smoked nut-brown, evil-smelling pipes, and stared
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the weight of a heavy man. Some of us still preserve, as
heirlooms, old tables and bedsteads of Cromwellian times: in the
twenty-first century what will have become of our machine-made
bedsteads and tables?
Perhaps it may seem odd to talk about tanning and joinery in
connection with culture, but indeed there is a subtle bond of
union holding together all these things. Any phase of life can be
understood only by associating with it some different phase.
Sokrates himself has taught us how the homely things illustrate
the grand things. If we turn to the art of musical composition
and inquire into some of the differences between our recent music
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
