| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: face downward on the bed, dry-eyed, dry-mouthed, dumb.
Mrs. Eppingwell's knowledge of human nature was great. She aimed
at universality. She had found it easy to step from the civilized
and contemplate things from the barbaric aspect. She could
comprehend certain primal and analogous characteristics in a
hungry wolf-dog or a starving man, and predicate lines of action
to be pursued by either under like conditions. To her, a woman
was a woman, whether garbed in purple or the rags of the gutter;
Freda was a woman. She would not have been surprised had she been
taken into the dancer's cabin and encountered on common ground;
nor surprised had she been taken in and flaunted in prideless
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: And as I stand here at the door of glory,
I look behind me for the last time.
I look upon the history of men, which
I have learned from the books, and I wonder.
It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it
was the spirit of man's freedom.
But what is freedom? Freedom from what?
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away
from him, save other men. To be free,
a man must be free of his brothers.
That is freedom. That and nothing else.
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: conscience is quite easy. But once I broke a comrade's back; it
happened in a singular way, and it has been a painful thing to me to
think of afterwards--the man's dying grimace haunts me at times. But
you shall judge for yourself.
"It was during the retreat from Moscow," the commandant went on. "The
Grand Army had ceased to be itself; we were more like a herd of over-
driven cattle. Good-bye to discipline! The regiments had lost sight of
their colors, every one was his own master, and the Emperor (one need
not scruple to say it) knew that it was useless to attempt to exert
his authority when things had gone so far. When we reached Studzianka,
a little place on the other side of the Beresina, we came upon human
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