| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: thought is horrible to us."
"I have nothing to say against that, theoretically. But do you
really sustain your bodies on water?"
"Supposing you could find nothing else to live on, Maskull - would
you eat other men?"
"I would not."
"Neither will we eat plants and animals, which are our fellow
creatures. So nothing is left to us but water, and as one can really
live on anything, water does very well."
Maskull picked up one of the fruits and handled it curiously. As he
did so another of his newly acquired sense organs came into action.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: "The pipe soothed him, and gradually I made out he had
run away from school, had gone to sea in a Russian ship;
ran away again; served some time in English ships; was now
reconciled with the arch-priest. He made a point of that.
`But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas;
enlarge the mind.' `Here!' I interrupted. `You can never tell!
Here I met Mr. Kurtz,' he said, youthfully solemn and reproachful.
I held my tongue after that. It appears he had persuaded
a Dutch trading-house on the coast to fit him out with stores
and goods, and had started for the interior with a light heart
and no more idea of what would happen to him than a baby.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: success of merchants. To grow rich was none of his ambitions;
rather to do well. A worse or a more bold young man would
have refused the destiny; perhaps tried his future with his pen;
perhaps enlisted. Robert, more prudent, possibly more timid,
consented to embrace that way of life in which he could most
readily assist his family. But he did so with a mind divided;
fled the neighbourhood of former comrades; and chose, out of
several positions placed at his disposal, a clerkship in New
York.
His career thenceforth was one of unbroken shame. He did
not drink, he was exactly honest, he was never rude to his
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