| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though
I will still make use and get what advantages of her I can,
as is usual in such cases.
If others pay the tax which is demanded of me, from a
sympathy with the State, they do but what they have already
done in their own case, or rather they abet injustice to a
greater extent than the State requires. If they pay the tax
from a mistaken interest in the individual taxed, to save
his property, or prevent his going to jail, it is because
they have not considered wisely how far they let their
private feelings interfere with the public good.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: it wended its course through the untraversed regions of the milky way.
The rest of the community, however, by no means sympathized with the
professor's sentiments, and the following month was a period of considerable
doubt and anxiety.
On the 1st of September the distance between Gallia and Jupiter was
precisely the same as the mean distance between the earth and the sun;
on the 16th, the distance was further reduced to 26,000,000 leagues.
The planet began to assume enormous dimensions, and it almost seemed
as if the comet had already been deflected from its elliptical orbit,
and was rushing on in a straight line towards the overwhelming luminary.
The more they contemplated the character of this gigantic planet,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: while he pursued: "No, Captain Lingard, I believe the woman of
whom we speak is and will always remain in the fullest possession
of herself."
Lingard, leaning back, clasped his hands round his knees. He
seemed not to be listening and d'Alcacer, pulling a cigarette
case out of his pocket, looked for a long time at the three
cigarettes it contained. It was the last of the provision he had
on him when captured. D'Alcacer had put himself on the strictest
allowance. A cigarette was only to be lighted on special
occasions; and now there were only three left and they had to be
made to last till the end of life. They calmed, they soothed,
The Rescue |
