| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: mense edifice inlaid with bands of dark ripple, with
still trails of glitter, ending in a belt of glassy
water at the foot of the sky. The light blur of
smoke, from an invisible steamer, faded on the
great clearness of the horizon like the mist of a
breath on a mirror; and, inshore, the white sails of
a coaster, with the appearance of disentangling
themselves slowly from under the branches, floated
clear of the foliage of the trees.
"Shipwrecked in the bay?" I said.
"Yes; he was a castaway. A poor emigrant
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Menexenus by Plato: take the disorder in a milder form. How joyful and natural was the
reconciliation of those who came from the Piraeus and those who came from
the city; with what moderation did they order the war against the tyrants
in Eleusis, and in a manner how unlike what the other Hellenes expected!
And the reason of this gentleness was the veritable tie of blood, which
created among them a friendship as of kinsmen, faithful not in word only,
but in deed. And we ought also to remember those who then fell by one
another's hands, and on such occasions as these to reconcile them with
sacrifices and prayers, praying to those who have power over them, that
they may be reconciled even as we are reconciled. For they did not attack
one another out of malice or enmity, but they were unfortunate. And that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: the kingdom, Pelias my uncle, and fulfil your promise as I
have fulfilled mine.'
Then his father clung to him like a child, and wept, and
would not let him go; and cried, 'Now I shall not go down
lonely to my grave. Promise me never to leave me till I
die.'
PART VI - WHAT WAS THE END OF THE HEROES
AND now I wish that I could end my story pleasantly; but it
is no fault of mine that I cannot. The old songs end it
sadly, and I believe that they are right and wise; for though
the heroes were purified at Malea, yet sacrifices cannot make
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