| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: need to call any one."
"I was not going to," I said.
"Are you alone on deck?"
"Yes."
I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go
the ladder to swim away beyond my ken - mysterious as he came.
But, for the moment, this being appearing as if he had risen from
the bottom of the sea (it was certainly the nearest land to the
ship) wanted only to know the time. I told him. And he, down
there, tentatively:
"I suppose your captain's turned in?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: to persuade people, in a certain famous passage, that philosophers
do not care to trouble the world--of the ten names to whom he does
honour, seven names are English. "It is," he says, "neither
Montaigne, nor Locke, nor Boyle, nor Spinoza, nor Hobbes, nor Lord
Shaftesbury, nor Mr. Collins, nor Mr. Toland, nor Fludd, nor Baker,
who have carried the torch of discord into their countries." It is
worth notice, that not only are the majority of these names English,
but that they belong not to the latter but to the former half of the
eighteenth century; and indeed, to the latter half of the
seventeenth.
So it was with that Inductive Physical Science, which helped more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum: there for good."
"Who designed his house?" asked the Shaggy Man.
"I believe it was Jack Pumpkinhead, who is also a farmer,"
was the reply.
They were now invited to enter the tin dining room, where luncheon
was served.
Aunt Em found, to her satisfaction, that Dorothy's promise was
more than fulfilled; for, although the Tin Woodman had no appetite of
his own, he respected the appetites of his guests and saw that they
were bountifully fed.
They passed the afternoon in wandering through the beautiful gardens
The Emerald City of Oz |
