| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: "At the end of the village; the further side, the third from the
end. To the left there is a brick cottage, and her hut is beyond
that. But I'd better see you there," the foreman said with a
graceful smile.
"No, thanks, I shall find it; and you be so good as to call a
meeting of the peasants, and tell them that I want to speak to
them about the land," said Nekhludoff, with the intention of
coming to the same agreement with the peasants here as he had
done in Kousminski, and, if possible, that same evening.
CHAPTER IV.
THE PEASANTS' LOT.
Resurrection |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: ship strained. We put her head for home, and--would
you believe it? The wind came east right in our teeth.
It blew fresh, it blew continuously. We had to beat up
every inch of the way, but she did not leak so badly,
the water keeping comparatively smooth. Two hours'
pumping in every four is no joke--but it kept her afloat
as far as Falmouth.
"The good people there live on casualties of the sea,
and no doubt were glad to see us. A hungry crowd of
shipwrights sharpened their chisels at the sight of that
carcass of a ship. And, by Jove! they had pretty pick-
Youth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: by its dam, brought it home, and reared it; and then bethought him
of the happy notion of making it draw--presumably by its tail--a
fashion which endured long in Ireland, and had to be forbidden by
law, I think as late as the sixteenth century. A great aristocrat
must that man have become. A greater still he who first substituted
the bit for the halter. A greater still he who first thought of
wheels. A greater still he who conceived the yoke and pole for
bearing up his chariot; for that same yoke, and pole, and chariot,
became the peculiar instrument of conquerors like him who mightily
oppressed the children of Israel, for he had nine hundred chariots
of iron. Egyptians, Syrians, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans--none of
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