| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Rajahs! More! More!"
The sleepy voice of Almayer was heard on the verandah
recommending silence. Mrs. Almayer extinguished the light and
crept into her corner of the room. Nina laid down on her back on
a pile of soft mats, her hands entwined under her head, gazing
through the shutterless hole, serving as a window at the stars
twinkling on the black sky; she was awaiting the time of start
for her appointed meeting-place. With quiet happiness she
thought of that meeting in the great forest, far from all human
eyes and sounds. Her soul, lapsing again into the savage mood,
which the genius of civilisation working by the hand of Mrs.
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: person back at any time to what he was ten years before. If you've
lived away from it," she smiled, "so much the better."
"Ah if YOU haven't why should I?" he asked.
"Lived away, you mean, from what I myself was?"
"From what I was. I was of course an ass," Marcher went on; "but I
would rather know from you just the sort of ass I was than--from
the moment you have something in your mind--not know anything."
Still, however, she hesitated. "But if you've completely ceased to
be that sort--?"
"Why I can then all the more bear to know. Besides, perhaps I
haven't."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: The clergy also here are, generally speaking, very rich and very
numerous.
As there is such good company, so they are gotten into that new-
fashioned way of conversing by assemblies. I shall do no more than
mention them here; they are pleasant and agreeable to the young
peoples, and sometimes fatal to them, of which, in its place,
Winchester has its share of the mirth. May it escape the ill-
consequences!
The hospital on the south of this city, at a mile distant on the
road to Southampton, is worth notice. It is said to be founded by
King William Rufus, but was not endowed or appointed till later
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