| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: good and evil fortune. No doubt the one-eyed statesman felt
within his savage and much sophisticated breast the unwonted
feelings of sympathy with, and perhaps even pity for, the man he
called his master. From the safe position of a confidential
adviser, he could, in the dim vista of past years, see himself--a
casual cut-throat--finding shelter under that man's roof in the
modest rice-clearing of early beginnings. Then came a long
period of unbroken success, of wise counsels, and deep plottings
resolutely carried out by the fearless Lakamba, till the whole
east coast from Poulo Laut to Tanjong Batu listened to
Babalatchi's wisdom speaking through the mouth of the ruler of
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: The help of heaven we count the act of men.
Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent:
Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.
I am not an impostor, that proclaim
Myself against the level of mine aim;
But know I think, and think I know most sure,
My art is not past power nor you past cure.
KING.
Art thou so confident? Within what space
Hop'st thou my cure?
HELENA.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: the Prince of Pingaree. Moreover, they were eating up
Queen Cor's provisions and crowding the houses of her
own people, who grumbled and complained until their
Queen was heartily tired.
"Shame on you!" she said to her husband, King Gos,
"to be driven out of your city by a boy, a roly-poly
King and a billy goat! Why do you not go back and fight
them?"
"No human can fight against the powers of magic,"
returned the King in a surly voice. "That boy is either
a fairy or under the protection of fairies. We escaped
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