| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: though in sudden and amazed delight - and then she was standing full
in the open doorway, and her revolver in her outflung, gloved hand
covered the two men at the table.
There was a startled cry from Skeeny, a scintillating flash of light
as a magnificent string of diamonds fell from his hand to the table.
But Danglar did not move or speak; only his lips twitched, and a
queer whiteness came and spread itself over his face.
"Put up your hands-both of you!" she ordered, in a low, tense voice.
It was Skeeny who spoke, as both men obeyed her. "The White Moll,
so help me!" he mumbled, and swallowed hard.
Danglar's eyes never seemed to leave her face, and they narrowed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: separation and aggregation?
Inevitably.
And whenever it becomes like and unlike it must be assimilated and
dissimilated?
Yes.
And when it becomes greater or less or equal it must grow or diminish or be
equalized?
True.
And when being in motion it rests, and when being at rest it changes to
motion, it can surely be in no time at all?
How can it?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: on the river, gathering the steamer into a shadowy embrace.
A formidable silence hung over the scene.
"She turned away slowly, walked on, following the bank, and passed
into the bushes to the left. Once only her eyes gleamed back at us
in the dusk of the thickets before she disappeared.
"`If she had offered to come aboard I really think I would have tried
to shoot her,' said the man of patches, nervously. `I have been risking
my life every day for the last fortnight to keep her out of the house.
She got in one day and kicked up a row about those miserable rags I
picked up in the storeroom to mend my clothes with. I wasn't decent.
At least it must have been that, for she talked like a fury to Kurtz
Heart of Darkness |
