| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: short sword ornamented with brilliantly dyed fringes of
horsehair. Nina, hesitating on the threshold, saw an erect lithe
figure of medium height with a breadth of shoulder suggesting
great power. Under the folds of a blue turban, whose fringed
ends hung gracefully over the left shoulder, was a face full of
determination and expressing a reckless good-humour, not devoid,
however, of some dignity. The squareness of lower jaw, the full
red lips, the mobile nostrils, and the proud carriage of the head
gave the impression of a being half-savage, untamed, perhaps
cruel, and corrected the liquid softness of the almost feminine
eye, that general characteristic of the race. Now, the first
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and among wild beasts, or you would possess, as I do, the
fatalism of the jungle."
And so they moved to the side of the gorge beneath the
shade of an overhanging rock and lay down in the hot sand to
rest. Numa wandered restlessly to and fro and finally, after
sprawling for a moment close beside the ape-man, rose and
moved off up the gorge to be lost to view a moment later be-
yond the nearest turn.
For an hour the little party rested and then Tarzan suddenly
rose and, motioning the others to silence, listened. For a min-
ute he stood motionless, his keen ears acutely receptive to
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: "He told me," said the other,
"Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch."
The Two Pots
Two Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass,
and one of earthenware. When the tide rose they both floated off
down the stream. Now the earthenware pot tried its best to keep
aloof from the brass one, which cried out: "Fear nothing, friend,
I will not strike you."
"But I may come in contact with you," said the other, "if I
come too close; and whether I hit you, or you hit me, I shall
suffer for it."
Aesop's Fables |
