| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: each other in twos and threes, the speaker of the minute
looking sideways into his auditor's face and concentrating
his argument by a contraction of one eyelid during de-
livery. The greater number carried in their hands
ground-ash saplings, using them partly as walking-sticks
and partly for poking up pigs, sheep, neighbours with
their backs turned, and restful things in general, which
seemed to require such treatment in the course of their
peregrinations. During conversations each subjected
his sapling to great varieties of usage -- bending it round
his back, forming an"arch of it between his two hands,
Far From the Madding Crowd |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: was of that character--a consciousness, so to speak, continuous
through nature, and though running to points of
illumination and foci of special activity in individuals, yet
at no point essentially broken or imprisoned in separate
compartments. (And it is this CONTINUITY of the primitive
mind which enables us, as I have already explained, to
understand the mysterious workings of instinct and intuition.)
To some such unity-consciousness we have to return;
but clearly it will be--it is not--of the simple inchoate
character of the First Stage, for it has been enriched,
deepened, and greatly extended by the experience of the
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: miles. Therefore it was probable that Harding could easily solve the
question of "island or continent," to which he attached so much importance.
They supped capitally. The flesh of the capybara was declared excellent.
The sargassum and the almonds of the stone-pine completed the repast,
during which the engineer spoke little. He was preoccupied with projects
for the next day.
Once or twice Pencroft gave forth some ideas upon what it would be best
to do; but Cyrus Harding, who was evidently of a methodical mind, only
shook his head without uttering a word.
"To-morrow," he repeated, "we shall know what we have to depend upon, and
we will act accordingly."
The Mysterious Island |
