| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: "'Thank you! No!' said our skipper. 'We must see
the last of the ship.'
"'I can't stand by any longer,' shouted the other.
'Mails--you know.'
"'Ay! ay! We are all right.'
"'Very well! I'll report you in Singapore. . . .
Good-by!'
"He waved his hand. Our men dropped their bundles
quietly. The steamer moved ahead, and passing out of
the circle of light, vanished at once from our sight, daz-
zled by the fire which burned fiercely. And then I knew
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: they were the antithesis of the religious life. His book, when it
is analysed, resolves itself into just that research for an escape
from the painful accidents and chagrins of individuation, which is
the ultimate of religion.
At times, indeed, he seems almost wilfully blind to the true
solution round and about which his writing goes. He suggests as his
most hopeful satisfaction for the cravings of the human heart, such
a scientific prolongation of life that the instinct for self-
preservation will be at last extinct. If that is not the very
"resignation" he imputes to the Buddhist I do not know what it is.
He believes that an individual which has lived fully and completely
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: upon them, their huge forms exaggerated by the play of
moonlight and camp fire, came the hideous apes of Akut.
The instant the natives turned to flee the ape-man's savage
cry rang out above the shrieks of the blacks, and in answer
to it Sheeta and the apes leaped growling after the fugitives.
Some of the warriors turned to battle with their enraged
antagonists, but before the fiendish ferocity of the fierce beasts
they went down to bloody death.
Others were dragged down in their flight, and it was not
until the village was empty and the last of the blacks had
disappeared into the bush that Tarzan was able to recall his
The Beasts of Tarzan |
