End for Created by Penelope Olive
[23] PRINCIPLE & FOUNDATION
Humanity is created to praise, reverence, and serve
God our Lord, and by this means to save our soul.
And the other things on the face of the earth are
created for us and that they may help us in prosecuting
the end for which we are created.
From this it follows that we are to use them as much as
they help us on to our end, and ought to rid ourselves of them so
far as they hinder us as to it.
For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent
to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free
will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health
rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather
than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so in all the
rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to
the end for which we are created.
Prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write
your own erasure/blackout poem. You could use a page from a favorite book, a
magazine, what have you. It can be especially fun to play with a book you don’t
know, particularly one that deals with an unfamiliar topic. If you’d like to go
that route, maybe you’ll find something of interest in the thousands of scanned
books at the Internet Archive? Feel free to maintain the whitespace of the
original text (as is traditional for erasures/blackouts . . . if anything can
be called traditional about them) or to pluck words/phrases from your chosen
source material and rearrange them.
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