| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: since that, all has been still there."
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Next day a navvy had returned to the railway works.
"Where have you been so long?" his comrades asked.
"He keeps looking over his shoulder," said one, "as though he thought he
should see something there."
"When he drank his grog today," said another, "he let it fall, and looked
round."
Next day, a small old Bushman, and a Hottentot, in ragged yellow trousers,
were at a wayside canteen. When the Bushman had had brandy, he began to
tell how something (he did not say whether it was man, woman, or child) had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: true Democracy). Not the rule or domination of one
class or caste--as of the Intellectual, the Pious, the Commercial
or the Military--but the fusion or at least consentaneous
organization of ALL (as in the corresponding functions
of the human Body). Class rule has been the mark of that
second period of human evolution, and has inevitably
given birth during that period to wars and self-agrandizements
of classes and sections, and their consequent greeds
and tyrannies over other classes and sections. It is not
found in the primitive human tribes and societies, and
will not be found in the final forms of human association.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: and harsh perfumes, the intense work of tropical nature went on:
plants shooting upward, entwined, interlaced in inextricable
confusion, climbing madly and brutally over each other in the
terrible silence of a desperate struggle towards the life-giving
sunshine above--as if struck with sudden horror at the seething
mass of corruption below, at the death and decay from which they
sprang.
"We must part now," said Dain, after a long silence. "You must
return at once, Nina. I will wait till the brig drifts down
here, and shall get on board then."
"And will you be long away, Dain?" asked Nina, in a low voice.
Almayer's Folly |
