| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: On the Dunes
Spray
If Death Is Kind
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Thoughts
Faces
Evening: New York
Snowfall
The Silent Battle
The Sanctuary
At Sea
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: leisurely manner. . . . "Ship-owning it with the best.
A lottery ticket you want. Ha! ha! I will give you
lottery tickets, my boy. Let the old ship sink and the
old chum starve--that's right. He don't go wrong--
Massy don't. Not he. He's a genius--that man is.
That's the way to win your money. Ship and chum
must go."
"The silly fool has taken it to heart," muttered Massy
to himself. And, listening with a softened expression
of face for any slight sign of returning drowsiness, he
was discouraged profoundly by a burst of laughter full
End of the Tether |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: produce of fields it would have taken a hundred strong male arms to harvest
in the past. The iron tools and weapons, only one of which it took an
ancient father of our race long months of stern exertion to extract from
ore and bring to shape and temper, are now poured forth by steam-driven
machinery as a millpond pours forth its water; and even in war, the male's
ancient and especial field of labour, a complete reversal of the ancient
order has taken place. Time was when the size and strength of the muscles
in a man's legs and arms, and the strength and size of his body, largely
determined his fighting powers, and an Achilles or a Richard Coeur de Lion,
armed only with his spear or battle-axe, made a host fly before him; today
the puniest mannikin behind a modern Maxim gun may mow down in perfect
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