| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: band of music, health, and physical beauty; all but love - to any
worthy practiser. I sleep upon my art for a pillow; I waken in my
art; I am unready for death, because I hate to leave it. I love my
wife, I do not know how much, nor can, nor shall, unless I lost
her; but while I can conceive my being widowed, I refuse the
offering of life without my art. I AM not but in my art; it is me;
I am the body of it merely.
And yet I produce nothing, am the author of BRASHIANA and other
works: tiddy-iddity - as if the works one wrote were anything but
'prentice's experiments. Dear reader, I deceive you with husks,
the real works and all the pleasure are still mine and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: the wire-gauze, which carried off the heat
of the flame, and deprived it of its power.
The Chevalier Aldini conceived the idea of
applying the same material, in combination
with other badly conducting substances,
as a protection against fire. The
incombustible pieces of dress which he
uses for the body, arms, and legs, are
formed out of strong cloth, which has been
steeped in a solution of alum, while those
for the head, hands, and feet, are made
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: it too; she was not the sort of woman who is afraid to avow the
promptings of her heart. "You know," she said, "that I love
you."
"Agatha!" he cried again. He could say no more.
"Oh, Clement," she said, "if you were killed--killed
uselessly!--now that I have found you, I could not bear it.
Dear, I could not bear it!"
Cleggett was profoundly moved. He yearned to take her in his
arms to comfort her, and to promise anything she wished. And the
thought came to him too that, if he should perish, the one kiss,
given and received in the darkness and danger of fight and storm,
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