| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: nice and such a distinction to have one's own antipodes!
49. That which is so astonishing in the religious life of the
ancient Greeks is the irrestrainable stream of GRATITUDE which it
pours forth--it is a very superior kind of man who takes SUCH an
attitude towards nature and life.--Later on, when the populace
got the upper hand in Greece, FEAR became rampant also in
religion; and Christianity was preparing itself.
50. The passion for God: there are churlish, honest-hearted, and
importunate kinds of it, like that of Luther--the whole of
Protestantism lacks the southern DELICATEZZA. There is an
Oriental exaltation of the mind in it, like that of an
Beyond Good and Evil |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: almost in a groan.
M. de La Tour d'Azyr did, as always, the thing that sensibility
demanded of him. He took his leave. He understood that to linger
where his news had produced such an effect would be impossible,
indecent. So he departed, in a bitterness comparable only with
his erstwhile optimism, the sweet fruit of hope turned to a thing
of gall even as it touched his lips. Oh, yes; the last word,
indeed, was with Andre-Louis Moreau - always!
Uncle and niece looked at each other as he passed out, and there
was horror in the eyes of both. Aline's pallor was deathly almost,
and standing there now she wrung her hands as if in pain.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: single-handed; and of course this was known in the port. I am
telling you of it because the fact had its influence on the
developments you shall hear of presently.
"His steamer, being so small, could go up tiny creeks and into
shallow bays and through reefs and over sand-banks, collecting
produce, where no other vessel but a native craft would think of
venturing. It is a paying game, often. Davidson was known to
visit in her places that no one else could find and that hardly
anybody had ever heard of.
"The old dollars being called in, Davidson's Chinaman thought that
the Sissie would be just the thing to collect them from small
Within the Tides |
