| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: shadowless under the clear, light of the early morning.
The bottom of the canoe grated upon the sand as the little craft
ran upon the beach. Ali leaped on shore and held on while Dain
stepped out carrying Nina in his arms, exhausted by the events
and the long travelling during the night. Almayer was the last
to leave the boat, and together with Ali ran it higher up on the
beach. Then Ali, tired out by the long paddling, laid down in
the shade of the canoe, and incontinently fell asleep. Almayer
sat sideways on the gunwale, and with his arms crossed on his
breast, looked to the southward upon the sea.
After carefully laying Nina down in the shade of the bushes
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: bed they would have been quite full. But as they
thought my wife was white, she had no difficulty in
securing apartments, into which the luggage was
afterwards carried. The landlady, observing that I
took an interest in the baggage, became some-
what uneasy, and went into my wife's room, and said
to her, "Do you know the dark man downstairs?"
"Yes, he is my husband." "Oh! I mean the
black man--the NIGGER?" "I quite understand
you; he is my husband." "My God!" exclaimed
the woman as she flounced out and banged to the
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: them.
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: And what would you say of a state? What is that by the presence
or absence of which the state is improved and better managed and ordered?
ALCIBIADES: I should say, Socrates:--the presence of friendship and the
absence of hatred and division.
SOCRATES: And do you mean by friendship agreement or disagreement?
ALCIBIADES: Agreement.
SOCRATES: What art makes cities agree about numbers?
ALCIBIADES: Arithmetic.
SOCRATES: And private individuals?
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