| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: "O God! send me to hell if it so pleases thee!" cried the Marana,
dropping, exhausted and half dead, into a chair.
The flush in her cheeks, due to anxiety, paled suddenly; she had
strength to endure suffering, but none to bear this joy. Joy was more
violent in her soul than suffering, for it contained the echoes of her
pain and the agonies of its own emotion.
"But," she said, "how have you kept her safe? Tarragona is taken."
"Yes," said Perez, "but since you see me living why do you ask that
question? Should I not have died before harm could have come to
Juana?"
At that answer, the Marana seized the calloused hand of the old man,
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: all--absolutely requires a costume: he needs history as a
storeroom of costumes. To be sure, he notices that none of the
costumes fit him properly--he changes and changes. Let us look at
the nineteenth century with respect to these hasty preferences
and changes in its masquerades of style, and also with respect to
its moments of desperation on account of "nothing suiting" us. It
is in vain to get ourselves up as romantic, or classical, or
Christian, or Florentine, or barocco, or "national," in moribus
et artibus: it does not "clothe us"! But the "spirit," especially
the "historical spirit," profits even by this desperation: once
and again a new sample of the past or of the foreign is tested,
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: the Sissie would be just the thing to collect them from small
traders in the less frequented parts of the Archipelago. It's a
good business. Such cases of dollars are dumped aft in the ship's
lazarette, and you get good freight for very little trouble and
space.
"Davidson, too, thought it was a good idea; and together they made
up a list of his calls on his next trip. Then Davidson (he had
naturally the chart of his voyages in his head) remarked that on
his way back he might look in at a certain settlement up a mere
creek, where a poor sort of white man lived in a native village.
Davidson pointed out to his Chinaman that the fellow was certain to
Within the Tides |
