| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Almayer opened his eyes wide and looked alarmed. "No," he said
quickly; "haven't you seen him? Is he not with the Rajah? I am
waiting; why does he not come?"
Babalatchi nodded his head sadly.
"He is come, Tuan. He left last night when the storm was great
and the river spoke angrily. The night was very black, but he
had within him a light that showed the way to your house as
smooth as a narrow backwater, and the many logs no bigger than
wisps of dried grass. Therefore he went; and now he lies here."
And Babalatchi nodded his head towards the body.
"How can you tell?" said Almayer, excitedly, pushing his wife
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: lives now, they reasoned, were hungry and laborious; was it not right and
just that a better world should exist somewhere else? A thing that was
difficult to determine was the attitude of the pigs towards Moses. They
all declared contemptuously that his stories about Sugarcandy Mountain
were lies, and yet they allowed him to remain on the farm, not working,
with an allowance of a gill of beer a day.
After his hoof had healed up, Boxer worked harder than ever. Indeed, all
the animals worked like slaves that year. Apart from the regular work of
the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse
for the young pigs, which was started in March. Sometimes the long hours
on insufficient food were hard to bear, but Boxer never faltered. In
Animal Farm |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy
with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly
rational being?
LADY HUNSTANTON. My dear!
MRS. ALLONBY. Man, poor, awkward, reliable, necessary man belongs
to a sex that has been rational for millions and millions of years.
He can't help himself. It is in his race. The History of Woman is
very different. We have always been picturesque protests against
the mere existence of common sense. We saw its dangers from the
first.
LADY STUTFIELD. Yes, the common sense of husbands is certainly
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