| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: miles in a fortnight. She would never reach Hong-
Kong.
It was like fighting desperately toward destruc-
tion for the ship and the men. This was evident
without argument. Mr. Burns, losing all restraint,
put his face close to his captain's and fairly
yelled: "You, sir, are going out of the world. But
I can't wait till you are dead before I put the helm
up. You must do it yourself. You must do it
now!"
The man on the couch snarled in contempt.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: source of poesy in others, which he could not be if he were not himself a
poet. And at the touch of him every one becomes a poet, even though he had
no music in him before (A fragment of the Sthenoaoea of Euripides.); this
also is a proof that Love is a good poet and accomplished in all the fine
arts; for no one can give to another that which he has not himself, or
teach that of which he has no knowledge. Who will deny that the creation
of the animals is his doing? Are they not all the works of his wisdom,
born and begotten of him? And as to the artists, do we not know that he
only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?--he whom Love
touches not walks in darkness. The arts of medicine and archery and
divination were discovered by Apollo, under the guidance of love and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: happened--I had the proof of it before my eyes.
So enormous are the great carnivora of Caspak that they must
feed perpetually to support their giant thews, and the result
is that they will eat the meat of any other creature and will
attack anything that comes within their ken, no matter how
formidable the quarry. From later observation--I mention this
as worthy the attention of paleontologists and naturalists--I
came to the conclusion that such creatures as the cave-bear,
the cave-lion and the saber-tooth tiger, as well as the larger
carnivorous reptiles make, ordinarily, two kills a day--one in
the morning and one after night. They immediately devour the
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