| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: in Amsterdam. Nina, reclining in the long chair, listened
absently to the few disconnected words escaping from her father's
lips. Expedition! Gold! What did she care for all that? But at
the name of Maroola mentioned by her father she was all
attention. Dain was going down the river with his brig to-morrow
to remain away for a few days, said Almayer. It was very
annoying, this delay. As soon as Dain returned they would have
to start without loss of time, for the river was rising. He
would not be surprised if a great flood was coming. And he
pushed away his plate with an impatient gesture on rising from
the table. But now Nina heard him not. Dain going away! That's
Almayer's Folly |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Apology by Plato: using my name by way of illustration, as if he said, He, O men, is the
wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth
nothing. And so I go about the world, obedient to the god, and search and
make enquiry into the wisdom of any one, whether citizen or stranger, who
appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the
oracle I show him that he is not wise; and my occupation quite absorbs me,
and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to
any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion
to the god.
There is another thing:--young men of the richer classes, who have not much
to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear the pretenders
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: Duchess went into her larder and took
the pie off a shelf and looked at it.
"Oh what a good idea! Why
shouldn't I rush along and put my pie
into Ribby's oven when Ribby isn't
there?"
Ribby in the meantime had received
Duchess's answer, and as soon as she
was sure that the little dog would
come--she popped HER pie into the
oven. There were two ovens, one
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