| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Poem: I
See how the children in the print
Bound on the book to see what's in 't!
O, like these pretty babes, may you
Seize and APPLY this volume too!
And while your eye upon the cuts
With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage lessons not be blind.
Poem: II
Reader, your soul upraise to see,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: olis, and went to visit him in prison. She was
not admitted on the day she came, and was told
to come on the day fixed by regulations for visits
to the prisoners. When that day arrived, and
she was finally allowed to see him, she had to talk
to him through two gratings separating the pris-
oner from his visitor. This visit increased her in-
dignation against the authorities. And her feel-
ings become all the more revolutionary after a
visit she paid to the office of a gendarme officer
who had to deal with the Turin case. The offi-
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: just before that "there was really no one" to communicate with. No
one! And then remembering Mrs. Fyne's snappy "Practically" my
thoughts fastened upon that lady as a more tangible object of
speculation.
I wondered--and wondering I doubted--whether she really understood
herself the theory she had propounded to me. Everything may be
said--indeed ought to be said--providing we know how to say it. She
probably did not. She was not intelligent enough for that. She had
no knowledge of the world. She had got hold of words as a child
might get hold of some poisonous pills and play with them for "dear,
tiny little marbles." No! The domestic-slave daughter of Carleon
Chance |
