| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: with the manager on board, in charge of some volunteer skipper,
and before they had been out three hours they tore the bottom
out of her on stones, and she sank near the south bank.
I asked myself what I was to do there, now my boat was lost.
As a matter of fact, I had plenty to do in fishing my command
out of the river. I had to set about it the very next day.
That, and the repairs when I brought the pieces to the station,
took some months.
"My first interview with the manager was curious. He did not
ask me to sit down after my twenty-mile walk that morning.
He was commonplace in complexion, in features, in manners,
Heart of Darkness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: leaders of whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.
Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the
discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an
immense development to commerce, to navigation, to communication
by land. This development has, in its time, reacted on the
extension of industry; and in proportion as industry, commerce,
navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the
bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the
background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.
We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the
product of a long course of development, of a series of
The Communist Manifesto |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: could strike it with ease through the panel of a door, or the end
of a barrel. His laugh is said to have been quite horrible; and
his screech-owl voice, shrill, uncouth, and dissonant,
corresponded well with his other peculiarities.
"There was nothing very uncommon about his dress. He usually
wore an old slouched hat when he went abroad; and when at home, a
sort of cowl or night-cap. He never wore shoes, being unable to
adapt them to his mis-shapen finlike feet, but always had both
feet and legs quite concealed, and wrapt up with pieces of cloth.
He always walked with a sort of pole or pike-staff, considerably
taller than himself. His habits were, in many respects,
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