| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: HORNER.
Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.
[Dies.]
YORK.
Take away his weapon.--Fellow, thank God, and the good
wine in thy master's way.
PETER.
O God, have I overcome mine enemies in this presence? O
Peter, thou hast prevail'd in right!
KING.
Go, take hence that traitor from our sight,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: "What lingo is that?" said the amazed Carlier. "In the first moment I
fancied the fellow was going to speak French. Anyway, it is a
different kind of gibberish to what we ever heard."
"Yes," replied Kayerts. "Hey, Makola, what does he say? Where do they
come from? Who are they?"
But Makola, who seemed to be standing on hot bricks, answered
hurriedly, "I don't know. They come from very far. Perhaps Mrs. Price
will understand. They are perhaps bad men."
The leader, after waiting for a while, said something sharply to
Makola, who shook his head. Then the man, after looking round, noticed
Makola's hut and walked over there. The next moment Mrs. Makola was
Tales of Unrest |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche: And verily, many a chance came imperiously unto me: but still more
imperiously did my WILL speak unto it,--then did it lie imploringly upon
its knees--
--Imploring that it might find home and heart with me, and saying
flatteringly: "See, O Zarathustra, how friend only cometh unto friend!"--
But why talk I, when no one hath MINE ears! And so will I shout it out
unto all the winds:
Ye ever become smaller, ye small people! Ye crumble away, ye comfortable
ones! Ye will yet perish--
--By your many small virtues, by your many small omissions, and by your
many small submissions!
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
