| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: idle, and the more affectionate he finds his native relatives.
Most men thus circumstanced contrive to buy or brutally manage to
enforce their independence; but many vegetate without hope,
strangled by parasites.
We had no cause to blush with Brother Michel. Our new parents were
kind, gentle, well-mannered, and generous in gifts; the wife was a
most motherly woman, the husband a man who stood justly high with
his employers. Enough has been said to show why Moipu should be
deposed; and in Paaaeua the French had found a reputable
substitute. He went always scrupulously dressed, and looked the
picture of propriety, like a dark, handsome, stupid, and probably
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: more than to be asked, but, unfortunately, I do not quite see my
way . . ."
As the outer room was full of men I cast a wondering glance at
the closed door; but he shook his head.
"Oh, yes, I should be only too glad to get that berth for one of
them. But the fact of the matter is, the captain of that ship
wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that's not so
easy to find. I do not know anybody myself but you. It's a
second officer's berth and, of course, you would not care . . .
would you now? I know that it isn't what you are looking for."
It was not. I had given myself up to the idleness of a haunted
A Personal Record |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: not to Him, had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof
as well, they would give it for a ransom; these shall have an evil
reckoning up! and their resort is hell,- an evil couch shall it be!
Is he who knows that naught but the truth is sent down upon thee
from thy Lord like him who is blind? Only those possessed of minds
will remember!
Those who fulfil God's covenant and break not the compact, and those
who attain what God has bidden to be attained, and dread their Lord
and fear the evil reckoning up; and those who are patient, craving
their Lord's face, and are steadfast in prayer, and expend in alms
of what we have bestowed upon them secretly and openly, and ward off
The Koran |
