| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: received on that joyous night the name of "Almayer's Folly" by
the unanimous vote of the lighthearted seamen.
For many weeks after this visit life in Sambir resumed its even
and uneventful flow. Each day's sun shooting its morning rays
above the tree-tops lit up the usual scene of daily activity.
Nina walking on the path that formed the only street in the
settlement saw the accustomed sight of men lolling on the shady
side of the houses, on the high platforms; of women busily
engaged in husking the daily rice; of naked brown children racing
along the shady and narrow paths leading to the clearings.
Jim-Eng, strolling before his house, greeted her with a friendly
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: red glow of two dim lamps. Running along one
side of the passage was a thick wall with windows
protected by iron gratings. On the other side
were doors secured with locks. In the passage
stood a soldier, leaning up against the wall, asleep.
Through the doors the young Tsar heard the
muffled sound of living human beings: not of
one alone, but of many. HE was standing at the
side of the young Tsar, and pressing his shoulder
slightly with his soft hand, pushed him to the
first door, unmindful of the sentry. The young
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: that made Brigitte uneasy, the professor made a sign that he would
soon answer; then, having mistaken his glass and swallowed the
contents of Colleville's, he replied:--
"You ask what that insolent young man had done to me? A rascally
thing; and not the first, either. He knows that I cannot abide stars,
having very good reason to hate them, as you shall hear: In 1807,
being attached to the Bureau of Longitudes, I was part of the
scientific expedition sent to Spain, under the direction of my friend
and colleague, Jean-Baptiste Biot, to determine the arc of the
terrestrial meridian from Barcelona to the Balearic isles. I was just
in the act of observing a star (perhaps the very one my rascally pupil
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