| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: kept on groaning even as we went about our work. But
they all worked. That crew of Liverpool hard cases had
in them the right stuff. It's my experience they always
have. It is the sea that gives it--the vastness, the lone-
liness surrounding their dark stolid souls. Ah! Well!
we stumbled, we crept, we fell, we barked our shins on
the wreckage, we hauled. The masts stood, but we did
not know how much they might be charred down below.
It was nearly calm, but a long swell ran from the west
and made her roll. They might go at any moment. We
looked at them with apprehension. One could not fore-
Youth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Men and things shook off the torpor of the hot afternoon and
stirred into life under the first breath of the sea breeze.
Babalatchi hurried down to the water-gate; yet before he passed
through it he paused to look round the courtyard, with its light
and shade, with its cheery fires, with the groups of Lakamba's
soldiers and retainers scattered about. His own house stood
amongst the other buildings in that enclosure, and the statesman
of Sambir asked himself with a sinking heart when and how would
it be given him to return to that house. He had to deal with a
man more dangerous than any wild beast of his experience: a proud
man, a man wilful after the manner of princes, a man in love.
Almayer's Folly |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: where names appear on the documents [which names I have left out].
The resulting document has several misspellings removed from those
parchment "facsimiles" I used back in 1971, and which I should not
be able to easily find at this time, including "Brittain."
**The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Declaration of Independence**
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The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected
them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and
United States Declaration of Independence |
