| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: bounded far away on the other side by the narrow black line of
the forests. Suddenly, in a vivid white flash, the low point of
land with the bending trees on it and Almayer's house, leaped
into view, flickered and disappeared. Dain pushed Babalatchi
aside and ran down to the water-gate followed by his shivering
boatmen.
Babalatchi backed slowly in and closed the door, then turned
round and looked silently upon Lakamba. The Rajah sat still,
glaring stonily upon the table, and Babalatchi gazed curiously at
the perplexed mood of the man he had served so many years through
good and evil fortune. No doubt the one-eyed statesman felt
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: elegant cavalier at Versailles. Madame de Dey possessed a happiness
which does not always crown the efforts and struggles of a mother. Her
son adored her; their souls understood each other with fraternal
sympathy. If they had not been bound by nature's ties, they would
instinctively have felt for each other that friendship of man to man,
which is so rarely to be met in this life. Appointed sub-lieutenant of
dragoons, at the age of eighteen, the young Comte de Dey had obeyed
the point of honor of the period by following the princes of the blood
in their emigration.
Thus Madame de Dey, noble, rich, and the mother of an emigre, could
not be unaware of the dangers of her cruel situation. Having no other
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: undoubtedly POSSIBLE! He who has thought out this possibility to
its ultimate conclusion knows ANOTHER loathing unknown to the
rest of mankind--and perhaps also a new MISSION!
CHAPTER VI
WE SCHOLARS
204. At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself here as
that which it has always been--namely, resolutely MONTRER SES
PLAIES, according to Balzac--I would venture to protest against
an improper and injurious alteration of rank, which quite
unnoticed, and as if with the best conscience, threatens nowadays
to establish itself in the relations of science and philosophy. I
Beyond Good and Evil |
