| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: back against the bulkhead as you see a drunken man sometimes propped
up against a wall, half doubled up. In that attitude the captain
found him, when he came out, pulling the door to after him quickly.
At once Anthony let his eyes run all over the cabin. Powell,
without a word, clutched his forearm, led him round the end of the
table and began to justify himself. "I couldn't stop him," he
whispered shakily. "He was too quick for me. He drank it up and
fell down." But the captain was not listening. He was looking down
at Mr. Smith, thinking perhaps that it was a mere chance his own
body was not lying there. They did not want to speak. They made
signs to each other with their eyes. The captain grasped Powell's
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: be annoyed should I seem to be enjoining upon her more trouble than
upon any of our domestics with regard to our possessions; pointing out
to her that these domestics have only so far a share in their master's
chattels that they must fetch and carry, tend and guard them; nor have
they the right to use a single one of them except the master grant it.
But to the master himself all things pertain to use as he thinks best.
And so I pointed the conclusion: he to whom the greater gain attaches
in the preservation of the property or loss in its destruction, is
surely he to whom by right belongs the larger measure of
attention.[19]
[19] Or, "he it is on whom devolves as his concern the duty of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: aristocratic freedom from restraint, and force it to do
all the work and persistent hammering, to the end that
whenever the King's Own was tired and wanted to go
off for a change and rummage around amongst ogres
and have a good time, it could go without uneasiness,
knowing that matters were in safe hands behind it, and
business going to be continued at the old stand, same
as usual. The king was charmed with the idea.
When I noticed that, it gave me a valuable notion.
I thought I saw my way out of an old and stubborn
difficulty at last. You see, the royalties of the Pen-
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