| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: common people, they do best temper popular com-
motions.
For their merchants; they are vena porta; and
if they flourish not, a kingdom may have good
limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish
little. Taxes and imposts upon them, do seldom
good to the king's revenue; for that that he wins in
the hundred, he leeseth in the shire; the particular
rates being increased, but the total bulk of trading,
rather decreased.
For their commons; there is little danger from
Essays of Francis Bacon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: been no bridging of time to the tune of a thousand
centuries down to a progeny that reads newspapers and
rides on electric cars--ay, and that writes narratives
of bygone happenings even as this is written.
CHAPTER XVII
It was in the early fall of the following year that it
happened. After his failure to get the Swift One,
Red-Eye had taken another wife; and, strange to relate,
she was still alive. Stranger still, they had a baby
several months old--Red-Eye's first child. His previous
wives had never lived long enough to bear him children.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: navigators, so old, so mysterious, resplendent and
somber, living and unchanged, full of danger and prom-
ise. And these were the men. I sat up suddenly. A
wave of movement passed through the crowd from end
to end, passed along the heads, swayed the bodies, ran
along the jetty like a ripple on the water, like a breath
of wind on a field--and all was still again. I see it now
--the wide sweep of the bay, the glittering sands, the
wealth of green infinite and varied, the sea blue like the
sea of a dream, the crowd of attentive faces, the blaze of
vivid color--the water reflecting it all, the curve of the
Youth |
