| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: appliances, and leave government and education to the rustling
traditions of hundreds of years ago? Those traditions come from
the dark ages when there was really not enough for every one,
when life was a fierce struggle that might be masked but could
not be escaped. Of course this famine grabbing, this fierce
dispossession of others, must follow from such a disharmony
between material and training. Of course the rich were vulgar and
the poor grew savage and every added power that came to men made
the rich richer and the poor less necessary and less free. The
men I met in the casual wards and the relief offices were all
smouldering for revolt, talking of justice and injustice and
The Last War: A World Set Free |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: and for you; He both hears and knows!
And if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who created the heavens and the
earth, and subjected the sun and the moon?' they will surely say,
'God!' how then can they lie?
God extends provision to whomsoever He will of His servants, or
doles it out to him; verily, God all things doth know.
And if thou shouldst ask them, 'Who sends down from the heavens
water and quickens therewith the earth in its death?' they will surely
say, 'God!' say, 'And praise be to God!' nay, most of them have no
sense.
This life of the world is nothing but a sport and a play; but,
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: didn't see any reason to expose myself to a snub
from the fellow. He was a very unsatisfactory
steward and a miserable wretch besides, but I
would just as soon think of tweaking his nose.
"Tweaking his nose," said Captain Giles in a
scandalized tone. "Much use it would be to
you."
That remark was so irrelevant that one could
make no answer to it. But the sense of the ab-
surdity was beginning at last to exercise its well-
known fascination. I felt I must not let the
The Shadow Line |
