| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: energetic which distinguishes Paumotuan man.
The archipelago is divided between two main religions, Catholic and
Mormon. They front each other proudly with a false air of
permanence; yet are but shapes, their membership in a perpetual
flux. The Mormon attends mass with devotion: the Catholic sits
attentive at a Mormon sermon, and to-morrow each may have
transferred allegiance. One man had been a pillar of the Church of
Rome for fifteen years; his wife dying, he decided that must be a
poor religion that could not save a man his wife, and turned
Mormon. According to one informant, Catholicism was the more
fashionable in health, but on the approach of sickness it was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: position, which was not in harmony with my
conscience; but the conditions created by the past,
by my family and its claims upon me, were so
complicated that they would not let me out of
their grasp, or rather, I did not know how to free
myself. I had not the strength. Now that I am
over eighty and have become feeble, I have given
up trying to free myself; and, strange to say, as
my feebleness increases I realise more and more
strongly the wrongfulness of my position, and it
grows more and more intolerable to me.
The Forged Coupon |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months
The months will add themselves and make the years,
The years will roll into the centuries,
And mine will ever be a name of scorn.
I must not dwell on that defeat of fame.
Let the world be; that is but of the world.
What else? what hope? I think there was a hope,
Except he mocked me when he spake of hope;
His hope he called it; but he never mocks,
For mockery is the fume of little hearts.
And blessd be the King, who hath forgiven
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