| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: sagacity or my conscience would come out damaged from that campaign.
And no man will willingly put himself in the way of moral damage. I
did not want a war with Mrs. Fyne. I much preferred to hear
something more of the girl. I said:
"And so she went away with that respectable ruffian."
Mrs. Fyne moved her shoulders slightly--"What else could she have
done?" I agreed with her by another hopeless gesture. It isn't so
easy for a girl like Flora de Barral to become a factory hand, a
pathetic seamstress or even a barmaid. She wouldn't have known how
to begin. She was the captive of the meanest conceivable fate. And
she wasn't mean enough for it. It is to be remarked that a good
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: listening, with the depreciatory smile which acted as a filter to
flattery, enabling him to swallow the strongest doses without
apparent grossness of appetite. Julia winced at her own
definition of the smile.
On the way home, in the deserted winter dusk, Westall surprised
his wife by a sudden boyish pressure of her arm. "Did I open
their eyes a bit? Did I tell them what you wanted me to?" he
asked gaily.
Almost unconsciously, she let her arm slip from his. "What I
wanted--?"
"Why, haven't you--all this time?" She caught the honest wonder
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell: any of the other futilities incidental to our competitive
system. If each industrial guild secured for a term of
years the advantages, or part of the advantages, of
any new invention or methods which it introduced, it
is pretty certain that every encouragement would be
given to technical progress. The life of a discoverer
or inventor is in itself agreeable: those who adopt it,
as things are now, are seldom much actuated by economic
motives, but rather by the interest of the work
together with the hope of honor; and these motives
would operate more widely than they do now, since
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