| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: been going hard with you. You are on a lee shore and eating your
heart out with worry."
What seemed most awful to her was the elated light in his eyes, the
rapacious smile that would come and go on his lips as if he were
gloating over her misery. But her misery was his opportunity and he
rejoiced while the tenderest pity seemed to flood his whole being.
He pointed out to her that she knew who he was. He was Mrs. Fyne's
brother. And, well, if his sister was the best friend she had in
the world, then, by Jove, it was about time somebody came along to
look after her a little.
Flora had tried more than once to free herself, but he tightened his
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: the drinking-places. And in the open space I saw many
of the Folk. I had been straying, alone and a child,
for a week. During that time I had seen not one of my
kind. I had lived in terror and desolation. And now,
at the sight of my kind, I was overcome with gladness,
and I ran wildly toward them.
Then it was that a strange thing happened. Some one of
the Folk saw me and uttered a warning cry. On the
instant, crying out with fear and panic, the Folk fled
away. Leaping and scrambling over the rocks, they
plunged into the mouths of the caves and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: are called into existence by the same selforganization of life
still more wonderfully into rare persons who may by comparison be
called gods, creatures capable of thought, whose aims extend far
beyond the satisfaction of their bodily appetites and personal
affections, since they perceive that it is only by the
establishment of a social order founded on common bonds of moral
faith that the world can rise from mere savagery. But how is this
order to be set up by Godhead in a world of stupid giants, since
these thoughtless ones pursue only their narrower personal ends
and can by no means understand the aims of a god? Godhead, face
to face with Stupidity, must compromise. Unable to enforce on the
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