| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: boy appeared before him with a glass on a tray. He poured the
drink down his throat, and rushed out. His disappearance removed
the spell of wonder from the beholders. One of the men jumped up
and moved quickly to that side of the verandah from which almost
the whole of the roadstead could be seen. At the very moment when
Jasper, issuing from the door of the Orange House, was passing
under him in the street below, he cried to the others excitedly:
"That was Allen right enough! But where is his brig?"
Jasper heard these words with extraordinary loudness. The heavens
rang with them, as if calling him to account; for those were the
very words Freya would have to use. It was an annihilating
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: of years!... When I say "the ant," I mean the highest type of ant,-- not,
of course, the entire ant-family. About two thousand species of ants are
already known; and these exhibit, in their social organizations, widely
varying degrees of evolution. Certain social phenomena of the greatest
biological importance, and of no less importance in their strange relation
to the subject of ethics, can be studied to advantage only in the existence
of the most highly evolved societies of ants.
After all that has been written of late years about the probable value of
relative experience in the long life of the ant, I suppose that few persons
would venture to deny individual character to the ant. The intelligence of
the little creature in meeting and overcoming difficulties of a totally new
Kwaidan |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: idle vagabond nature, are fattened for food. They are supposed to
be descendant from the wolf, and retain something of his savage
but cowardly temper, howling rather than barking; showing their
teeth and snarling on the slightest provocation, but sneaking
away on the least attack.
The excitement of the village continued from day to day. On the
day following the alarm just mentioned, several parties arrived
from different directions, and were met and conducted by some of
the braves to the council lodge, where they reported the events
and success of their expeditions, whether of war or hunting;
which news was afterwards promulgated throughout the village, by
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