| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: in town, working for a merchant, so Alyosha had
to help his father from a very early age. When
he was no more than six he used to go out with the
girls to watch the cows and sheep in the pasture,
and a little later he looked after the horses by
day and by night. And at twelve years of age he
had already begun to plough and to drive the cart.
The skill was there though the strength was not.
He was always cheerful. Whenever the children
made fun of him, he would either laugh or be
silent. When his father scolded him he would
The Forged Coupon |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: turn the words round in the mouths of us discerning ones. Here
and there we understand it, and laugh at the way in which
precisely the best knowledge seeks most to retain us in this
SIMPLIFIED, thoroughly artificial, suitably imagined, and
suitably falsified world: at the way in which, whether it will or
not, it loves error, because, as living itself, it loves life!
25. After such a cheerful commencement, a serious word would fain
be heard; it appeals to the most serious minds. Take care, ye
philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom!
Of suffering "for the truth's sake"! even in your own defense! It
spoils all the innocence and fine neutrality of your conscience;
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: saw Mrs. Westgate come toward them with Percy Beaumont still at her side.
"Perhaps I shall go to England next year," Miss Alden continued;
"I want to, immensely. My sister is going to Europe, and she has
asked me to go with her. If we go, I shall make her stay as long
as possible in London."
"Ah, you must come in July," said Lord Lambeth.
"That's the time when there is most going on."
"I don't think I can wait till July," the young girl rejoined.
"By the first of May I shall be very impatient." They had gone further,
and Mrs. Westgate and her companion were near them. "Kitty," said
Miss Alden, "I have given out that we are going to London next May.
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