| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: torch bearers. Mr. Travers had to be carried down to the beach,
where two of Belarab's war-boats awaited their distinguished
passengers. Mrs. Travers passed through the gate on d'Alcacer's
arm. Her face was half veiled. She moved through the throng of
spectators displayed in the torchlight looking straight before
her. Belarab, standing in front of a group of headmen, pretended
not to see the white people as they went by. With Lingard he
shook hands, murmuring the usual formulas of friendship; and when
he heard the great white man say, "You shall never see me again,"
he felt immensely relieved. Belarab did not want to see that
white man again, but as he responded to the pressure of Lingard's
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: of and is moving about the wine, makes the wine both to be and to appear
sweet to the healthy tongue.
THEAETETUS: Certainly; that has been already acknowledged.
SOCRATES: But when I am sick, the wine really acts upon another and a
different person?
THEAETETUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: The combination of the draught of wine, and the Socrates who is
sick, produces quite another result; which is the sensation of bitterness
in the tongue, and the motion and creation of bitterness in and about the
wine, which becomes not bitterness but something bitter; as I myself become
not perception but percipient?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: 'STRACTED are perfect stories of their kind. I would not barter THE
JUNGLE BOOKS for a hundred of THE BRUSHWOOD BOY.
The truth is that love, considered merely as the preference of one
person for another of the opposite sex, is not "the greatest thing
in the world." It becomes great only when it leads on, as it often
does, to heroism and self-sacrifice and fidelity. Its chief value
for art (the interpreter) lies not in itself, but in its quickening
relation to the other elements of life. It must be seen and shown
in its due proportion, and in harmony with the broader landscape.
Do you believe that in all the world there is only one woman
specially created for each man, and that the order of the universe
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