| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: in the lettering it behoves me to turn my hand to something else."
"Don't hurry about getting employment," he said regretfully.
"I don't want you to do that. I wish you wouldn't, Sue.
The boy and yourself are enough for you to attend to."
There was a knock at the door, and Jude answered it.
Sue could hear the conversation:
"Is Mr. Fawley at home? ... Biles and Willis the building contractors sent
me to know if you'll undertake the relettering of the ten commandments
in a little church they've been restoring lately in the country near here."
Jude reflected, and said he could undertake it.
"It is not a very artistic job," continued the messenger.
Jude the Obscure |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: No.
Then if one is not, there is no conception of any of the others either as
one or many; for you cannot conceive the many without the one.
You cannot.
Then if one is not, the others neither are, nor can be conceived to be
either one or many?
It would seem not.
Nor as like or unlike?
No.
Nor as the same or different, nor in contact or separation, nor in any of
those states which we enumerated as appearing to be;--the others neither
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: haunches and buried his face in his hands.
It was after dark that the five men returned to the camp on
the east shore. The night was hot and sultry. No slightest
breeze ruffled the foliage of the trees or rippled the mirror-
like surface of the ocean. Only a gentle swell rolled softly in
upon the beach.
Never had Tarzan seen the great Atlantic so ominously at peace.
He was standing at the edge of the beach gazing out to sea
in the direction of the mainland, his mind filled with
sorrow and hopelessness, when from the jungle close behind
the camp came the uncanny wail of a panther.
The Beasts of Tarzan |
