| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that the tug sheered off quickly from her course, and I recall
realizing that all our efforts were to be in vain, because of all
the men aboard, Fate had decreed that this one should fall first
to an enemy bullet. I saw the depleted gun-crew on the submarine
fire their piece and I felt the shock of impact and heard the
loud explosion as the shell struck and exploded in our bows.
I saw and realized these things even as I was leaping into the
pilot-house and grasping the wheel, standing astride the dead
body of the helmsman. With all my strength I threw the helm
to starboard; but it was too late to effect the purpose of
our skipper. The best I did was to scrape alongside the sub.
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: because of disease, that is to say because of evil, is the friend of
medicine, and medicine is a good: and medicine has entered into this
friendship for the sake of health, and health is a good.
True.
And is health a friend, or not a friend?
A friend.
And disease is an enemy?
Yes.
Then that which is neither good nor evil is the friend of the good because
of the evil and hateful, and for the sake of the good and the friend?
Clearly.
Lysis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: Anthony, she wished them all further; and especially the nice,
pleasant-spoken Mrs. Brown with her beady, mobile eyes and her "Yes
certainly, ma'am," which seemed to her to have a mocking sound. And
so this short trip--to the Western Islands only--came to an end. It
was so short that when young Powell joined the Ferndale by a
memorable stroke of chance, no more than seven months had elapsed
since the--let us say the liberation of the convict de Barral and
his avatar into Mr. Smith.
For the time the ship was loading in London Anthony took a cottage
near a little country station in Essex, to house Mr. Smith and Mr.
Smith's daughter. It was altogether his idea. How far it was
Chance |
