| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: cease to wonder at the inexplicable? For I can't admit humanity to
be the explanation. It would be too monstrous."
It was nothing of the sort, Mrs. Fyne assured me with some
resentment, as though I had aspersed little Fyne's sanity. Fyne
very sensibly had set himself the mental task of discovering the
self-interest. I should not have thought him capable of so much
cynicism. He said to himself that for people of that sort
(religious fears or the vanity of righteousness put aside) money--
not great wealth, but money, just a little money--is the measure of
virtue, of expediency, of wisdom--of pretty well everything. But
the girl was absolutely destitute. The father was in prison after
Chance |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: with a score or more of flankers on either side; the fifty extra
mastodons, or heavy draught animals, known as zitidars,
and the five or six hundred extra thoats of the warriors
running loose within the hollow square formed by the
surrounding warriors. The gleaming metal and jewels of
the gorgeous ornaments of the men and women, duplicated in
the trappings of the zitidars and thoats, and interspersed
with the flashing colors of magnificent silks and furs and
feathers, lent a barbaric splendor to the caravan which would
have turned an East Indian potentate green with envy.
The enormous broad tires of the chariots and the padded
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: When our nature is already all to prone to run from God and
Christ, and trust in humanity, it is indeed difficult to learn to
trust in God and Christ, even though we have vowed to do so and
are therefore obligated to do so. Therefore, this offense is not
to be tolerated whereby those who are weak and of the flesh
participate in idolatry, against the first commandment and our
baptism. Even if one tries nothing other than to switch their
trust from the saints to Christ, through teaching and practice, it
will be difficult to accomplish, that one should come to him and
rightly take hold of him. One need not paint the Devil on the
door - he will already be present.
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