| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Far from us still be Varuna's displeasure may Indra give us
spacious
room to dwell in.
3 Make ye our sacrifice fair amid the assemblies: make ye our
prayers
approved among our princes.
May God-sent riches come for our possession: further ye us
with your
delightful succours.
4 O Indra-Varuna, vouchsafe us riches with store of treasure,
food,
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: restaurant of that kind and moreover he took the precaution to seat
himself at a small table so as to face the wall. Yet before long
he felt a hand laid gently on his shoulder, and, looking up, saw
one of his acquaintances, a member of the Royalist club, a young
man of a very cheerful disposition but whose face looked down at
him with a grave and anxious expression.
Monsieur George was far from delighted. His surprise was extreme
when in the course of the first phrases exchanged with him he
learned that this acquaintance had come to the station with the
hope of finding him there.
"You haven't been seen for some time," he said. "You were perhaps
The Arrow of Gold |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: more probable, and the secret, serious purpose of the institution
appears the more plainly, if it be true that, after a certain
period of life, the obligation of the votary was changed; at first,
bound to be profligate: afterwards, expected to be chaste.
Here, then, we have one side of the case. Man-eating among kindly
men, child-murder among child-lovers, industry in a race the most
idle, invention in a race the least progressive, this grim, pagan
salvation-army of the brotherhood of Oro, the report of early
voyagers, the widespread vestiges of former habitation, and the
universal tradition of the islands, all point to the same fact of
former crowding and alarm. And to-day we are face to face with the
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