| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: every opportunity of approaching the girl; and every time he
spoke to her, every time he looked into her eyes, Nina, although
averting her face, felt as if this bold-looking being who spoke
burning words into her willing ear was the embodiment of her
fate, the creature of her dreams--reckless, ferocious, ready with
flashing kriss for his enemies, and with passionate embrace for
his beloved--the ideal Malay chief of her mother's tradition.
She recognised with a thrill of delicious fear the mysterious
consciousness of her identity with that being. Listening to his
words, it seemed to her she was born only then to a knowledge of
a new existence, that her life was complete only when near him,
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: you so cross an' glum?"
An' Pa 'most took her head off coz the paper
didn't come.
CAN'T
_Can't_ is the worst word that's written or
spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each
morning
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: and found for it a completer and less restrained companion, a
companion I never cared for in the slightest degree. . . .
This efflorescence did not prevent, I think indeed it rather helped,
our more formal university work, for most of us took firsts, and
three of us got Fellowships in one year or another. There was
Benton who had a Research Fellowship and went to Tubingen, there was
Esmeer and myself who both became Residential Fellows. I had taken
the Mental and Moral Science Tripos (as it was then), and three
years later I got a lectureship in political science. In those days
it was disguised in the cloak of Political Economy.
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