| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: set men grinning. Wait and see, if you do not believe me.
HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE WAR
I. DO THEY REALLY THINK AT ALL?
All human affairs are mental affairs; the bright ideas of to-day
are the realities of to-morrow. The real history of mankind is
the history of how ideas have arisen, how they have taken
possession of men's minds, how they have struggled, altered,
proliferated, decayed. There is nothing in this war at all but a
conflict of ideas, traditions, and mental habits. The German
Will clothed in conceptions of aggression and fortified by
cynical falsehood, struggles against the fundamental sanity of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: York or Philadelphia. No, in London even new things look old, but
almost everything IS old. Our parlor has three windows down to the
floor, but it is very dark. The paint is maple color, and
everything is dingy in appearance. The window in my bedroom looks
like a horn lantern, so thick is the smoke, and yet everything is
scrupulously clean. On our arrival, Boyd, the Secretary of
Legation, soon came, and stayed to dine with us at six. Our dinner
was an excellent soup, the boiled cod garnished with fried smelts,
the roast beef and a FRICANDEAU with sweet breads, then a pheasant,
and afterwards, dessert.
This morning Mr. Bates came very early to see us, and then Mr.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: everywhere where he could find suitable premises at a moderate rent.
For this was the great characteristic of the management. Modesty,
moderation, simplicity. Neither The Orb nor The Sceptre nor yet
their parent the Thrift and Independence had built for themselves
the usual palaces. For this abstention they were praised in silly
public prints as illustrating in their management the principle of
Thrift for which they were founded. The fact is that de Barral
simply didn't think of it. Of course he had soon moved from
Vauxhall Bridge Road. He knew enough for that. What he got hold of
next was an old, enormous, rat-infested brick house in a small
street off the Strand. Strangers were taken in front of the meanest
Chance |
