| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: muddy--one lock of grayish hair straggling over her neck, her
face scared, white, but triumphant. Her bonnet dropped off and
was trampled into the gutter. A little Cockney recovered it, and
made ridiculous attempts to get to her and replace it.
"You must arrest me!" she gasped, breathlessly, insisting
insanely on a point already carried; "you shall!"
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a
refuge from unnamable disgraces. She hesitated about her name,
and, being prompted, gave it at last as Ann Veronica Smith, 107A,
Chancery Lane. . . .
Indignation carried her through that night, that men and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: space is the void of outward objects, and we can no more imagine the mind
without the one than the world without the other. It is to arithmetic what
space is to geometry; or, more strictly, arithmetic may be said to be
equally applicable to both. It is defined in our minds, partly by the
analogy of space and partly by the recollection of events which have
happened to us, or the consciousness of feelings which we are experiencing.
Like space, it is without limit, for whatever beginning or end of time we
fix, there is a beginning and end before them, and so on without end. We
speak of a past, present, and future, and again the analogy of space
assists us in conceiving of them as coexistent. When the limit of time is
removed there arises in our minds the idea of eternity, which at first,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: lightning-rods, came and frolicked on their noses, jumping from one to another,
and performing the most skilful leapings and somersaults.
As a last scene, a "human pyramid" had been announced, in which
fifty Long Noses were to represent the Car of Juggernaut.
But, instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other's shoulders,
the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses.
It happened that the performer who had hitherto formed the base
of the Car had quitted the troupe, and as, to fill this part,
only strength and adroitness were necessary, Passepartout
had been chosen to take his place.
The poor fellow really felt sad when--melancholy reminiscence
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