| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: "Ah ya! There!" yelled Mahmat. "There's a man amongst the logs."
He put the palms of his hand to his lips and shouted, enunciating
distinctly, his face turned towards the settlement: "There's a
body of a man in the river! Come and see! A dead--stranger!"
The women of the nearest house were already outside kindling the
fires and husking the morning rice. They took up the cry
shrilly, and it travelled so from house to house, dying away in
the distance. The men rushed out excited but silent, and ran
towards the muddy point where the unconscious logs tossed and
ground and bumped and rolled over the dead stranger with the
stupid persistency of inanimate things. The women followed,
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: consciousness or knowledge, the recovery is termed recollection and
reminiscence?
PROTARCHUS: Very true.
SOCRATES: There is a reason why I say all this.
PROTARCHUS: What is it?
SOCRATES: I want to attain the plainest possible notion of pleasure and
desire, as they exist in the mind only, apart from the body; and the
previous analysis helps to show the nature of both.
PROTARCHUS: Then now, Socrates, let us proceed to the next point.
SOCRATES: There are certainly many things to be considered in discussing
the generation and whole complexion of pleasure. At the outset we must
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: he said finally, hesitating like a man who is fighting for breath.
"My heart is weak; any excitement upsets me. You mean that the
authorities are not convinced of my guilt, in spite of the evidence?
You mean that they will give me the benefit of the doubt - that they
will give me a chance for life?"
"Yes, that is the reason for my coming here. I am to take this
case in hand. If you will talk freely to me, Mr. Graumann, I may
be able to help you. I have seen too many mistakes of justice
because of circumstantial evidence to lay any too great stress
upon it. I have waited to hear your side of the story from
yourself. I did not want to hear it from others. Will you tell it
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