| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "He changed his direction - but very soon he stopped. It was then
that he hesitated in cruel perplexity. He guessed what had
happened. The woman had managed to escape from the house in some
way, and now was being chased in the open by the infuriated
Frenchman. He trusted she would try to run on board for
protection.
"All was still around Davidson. Whether she had run on board or
not, this silence meant that the Frenchman had lost her in the
dark.
"Davidson, relieved, but still very anxious, turned towards the
river-side. He had not made two steps in that direction when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: "It's perfectly true. I feel guilty and ashamed. And you?"
"I'm past it. Let us make a pallet here; we've got to stand watch
till the bank vault opens in the morning and admits the sack. . . Oh
dear, oh dear--if we hadn't made the mistake!"
The pallet was made, and Mary said:
"The open sesame--what could it have been? I do wonder what that
remark could have been. But come; we will get to bed now."
"And sleep?"
"No; think."
"Yes; think."
By this time the Coxes too had completed their spat and their
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: purple only, or any other colour, and sometimes mixes up several colours,
as his method is when he has to paint flesh colour or anything of that
kind--he uses his colours as his figures appear to require them; and so,
too, we shall apply letters to the expression of objects, either single
letters when required, or several letters; and so we shall form syllables,
as they are called, and from syllables make nouns and verbs; and thus, at
last, from the combinations of nouns and verbs arrive at language, large
and fair and whole; and as the painter made a figure, even so shall we make
speech by the art of the namer or the rhetorician, or by some other art.
Not that I am literally speaking of ourselves, but I was carried away--
meaning to say that this was the way in which (not we but) the ancients
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