| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: know. By all accounts these savages here are a crool murdering
lot. Mind you, I am sorry for him as much as anybody."--"Aye,
aye," muttered the other, approvingly. --"He may not have been
ready, poor man," began again the reasonable voice. Lingard heard
a deep sigh.--"If there's anything as can be done for him, the
owner's wife she's got to fix it up with this 'ere skipper. Under
Providence he may serve her turn."
Lingard flung open the cabin door, entered, and, with a slam,
shut the darkness out.
"I am, under Providence, to serve your turn," he said after
standing very still for a while, with his eyes upon Mrs. Travers.
The Rescue |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: The Two Pots The Lion in Love
The Four Oxen and the Lion The Bundle of Sticks
The Fisher and the Little Fish The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts
Avaricious and Envious The Ass's Brains
The Crow and the Pitcher The Eagle and the Arrow
The Man and the Satyr The Milkmaid and Her Pail
The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Cat-Maiden
The Labourer and the Nightingale The Horse and the Ass
The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner
The Wind and the Sun The Buffoon and the Countryman
Hercules and the Waggoner The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar
Aesop's Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: to identify amid the moving flux of opinions the part determined
by general beliefs and the genius of the race.
In the absence of this philosophic test it might be supposed that
crowds change their political or religious beliefs frequently and
at will. All history, whether political, religious, artistic, or
literary, seems to prove that such is the case.
As an example, let us take a very short period of French history,
merely that from 1790 to 1820, a period of thirty years'
duration, that of a generation. In the course of it we see the
crowd at first monarchical become very revolutionary, then very
imperialist, and again very monarchical. In the matter of
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