| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: He stared about with his mouth open and saw a white woman issue
from the long grass in which a small hut stood buried nearly up to
the roof.
"Try to imagine the shock: in that wild place that you couldn't
find on a map, and more squalid than the most poverty-stricken
Malay settlement had a right to be, this European woman coming
swishing out of the long grass in a fanciful tea-gown thing, dingy
pink satin, with a long train and frayed lace trimmings; her eyes
like black coals in a pasty-white face. Davidson thought that he
was asleep, that he was delirious. From the offensive village
mudhole (it was what Davidson had sniffed just before) a couple of
Within the Tides |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad: to the subject of his conversation in the captain's cabin,
exclaimed anxiously across the table:
"I really don't know what I can do now!"
Captain C---- only raised his eyebrows at him, and got up from
his chair. We dispersed to our duties, but Almayer, half dressed
as he was in his cretonne pajamas and the thin cotton singlet,
remained on board, lingering near the gangway, as though he could
not make up his mind whether to go home or stay with us for good.
Our Chinamen boys gave him side glances as they went to and fro;
and Ah Sing, our chief steward, the handsomest and most
sympathetic of Chinamen, catching my eye, nodded knowingly at his
A Personal Record |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: interrupted the needle again moved, and in a direction opposed to
that observed on the completion of the circuit.
This result, and others of a similar kind, led him to the conclusion
'that the battery current through the one wire did in reality induce
a similar current through the other; but that it continued for an
instant only, and partook more of the nature of the electric wave
from a common Leyden jar than of the current from a voltaic battery.'
The momentary currents thus generated were called induced currents,
while the current which generated them was called the inducing
current. It was immediately proved that the current generated at
making the circuit was always opposed in direction to its generator,
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