| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: months' work. The boatman who pulled me off to the
ship said: 'Hallo! I thought you had left the old thing.
SHE will never get to Bankok.' 'That's all YOU know
about it,' I said scornfully--but I didn't like that proph-
ecy at all.
"Suddenly a man, some kind of agent to somebody,
appeared with full powers. He had grog blossoms all
over his face, an indomitable energy, and was a jolly
soul. We leaped into life again. A hulk came along-
side, took our cargo, and then we went into dry dock to
get our copper stripped. No wonder she leaked. The
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: but dramatic genius; and his "Emilia Galotti" has kept the stage
until to-day. Nevertheless, he knew well what he meant when he
said that he was more of a critic than a poet. His genius was
mainly of the critical order; and his great work, "Nathan the
Wise," was certainly constructed rather than created. It was
intended to convey a doctrine, and was carefully shaped for the
purpose. And when we have pronounced it the greatest of all poems
that have been written for a set purpose, and admit of being
expressed in a definite formula, we have classified it with
sufficient accuracy.
For an analysis of the characters in the poem, nothing can be
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: receptacle to flow into and out of the lesser nets and the lesser nets into
and out of it, while the outer net found a way into and out of the pores of
the body, and the internal heat followed the air to and fro. These, as we
affirm, are the phenomena of respiration. And all this process takes place
in order that the body may be watered and cooled and nourished, and the
meat and drink digested and liquefied and carried into the veins.
The causes of respiration have now to be considered. The exhalation of the
breath through the mouth and nostrils displaces the external air, and at
the same time leaves a vacuum into which through the pores the air which is
displaced enters. Also the vacuum which is made when the air is exhaled
through the pores is filled up by the inhalation of breath through the
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