| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: himself carried away helpless by a great wave of supreme emotion,
by a rush of joy, pride, and desire; understood once more with
overpowering certitude that there was no life possible without
that being he held clasped in his arms with passionate strength
in a prolonged embrace.
Nina disengaged herself gently with a low laugh.
"You will overturn the boat, Dain," she whispered.
He looked into her eyes eagerly for a minute and let her go with
a sigh, then lying down in the canoe he put his head on her
knees, gazing upwards and stretching his arms backwards till his
hands met round the girl's waist. She bent over him, and,
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: that the money that the perfume cost should have been expended on
charitable relief of people in want, or something of that kind.
Jesus did not accept that view. He pointed out that the material
needs of Man were great and very permanent, but that the spiritual
needs of Man were greater still, and that in one divine moment, and
by selecting its own mode of expression, a personality might make
itself perfect. The world worships the woman, even now, as a
saint.
Yes; there are suggestive things in Individualism. Socialism
annihilates family life, for instance. With the abolition of
private property, marriage in its present form must disappear.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: on their backs on the grass to stare at the sky.
Neither did they go about the fields screaming dis-
mal tunes. Many times have I heard his high-
pitched voice from behind the ridge of some slop-
ing sheep-walk, a voice light and soaring, like a
lark's, but with a melancholy human note, over our
fields that hear only the song of birds. And I
should be startled myself. Ah! He was different:
innocent of heart, and full of good will, which no-
body wanted, this castaway, that, like a man trans-
planted into another planet, was separated by an
Amy Foster |
