| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: slave of this woman's desire, and she wills it so."
There was not a glimmer of light in the sky now, and the tops of
the trees were as invisible as their trunks, being lost in the
mass of clouds that hung low over the woods, the clearing, and
the river.
Every outline had disappeared in the intense blackness that
seemed to have destroyed everything but space. Only the fire
glimmered like a star forgotten in this annihilation of all
visible things, and nothing was heard after Dain ceased speaking
but the sobs of Nina, whom he held in his arms, kneeling beside
the fire. Almayer stood looking down at them in gloomy
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: them, paraphrasing Mr. Kipling, "What do they know of Plato that only
Plato know?" If our universities would exclude everybody who had not
earned a living by his or her own exertions for at least a couple of
years, their effect would be vastly improved.
The New Laziness
The child of the future, then, if there is to be any future but one of
decay, will work more or less for its living from an early age; and in
doing so it will not shock anyone, provided there be no longer any
reason to associate the conception of children working for their
living with infants toiling in a factory for ten hours a day or boys
drudging from nine to six under gas lamps in underground city offices.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Treasure Island |
