| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: "It's very neglectful, anyway. To sit for three hours in the
study without remembering our existence! But of course she must
do as she likes."
Varya and Liza both hate Katya. This hatred is beyond my
comprehension, and probably one would have to be a woman in order
to understand it. I am ready to stake my life that of the hundred
and fifty young men I see every day in the lecture-theatre, and
of the hundred elderly ones I meet every week, hardly one could
be found capable of understanding their hatred and aversion for
Katya's past -- that is, for her having been a mother without
being a wife, and for her having had an illegitimate child; and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: humiliation to her. I suspected her of keeping up a brave front
with the loss of my uncle's affections fretting at her heart, but
there I simply underestimated her. She didn't hear for some time
and when she did hear she was extremely angry and energetic. The
sentimental situation didn't trouble her for a moment. She
decided that my uncle "wanted smacking." She accentuated herself
with an unexpected new hat, went and gave him an inconceivable
talking-to at the Hardingham, and then came round to "blow-up"
me for not telling her what was going on before....
I tried to bring her to a proper sense of the accepted values in
this affair, but my aunt's originality of outlook was never so
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: the free gift of a donor, but the reward due to the laborer.
But, although this doctrine is despised by the inexperienced,
nevertheless God-fearing and anxious consciences find by
experience that it brings the greatest consolation, because
consciences cannot be set at rest through any works, but only
by faith, when they take the sure ground that for Christ's
sake they have a reconciled God. As Paul teaches Rom. 5, 1:
Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. This whole
doctrine is to be referred to that conflict of the terrified
conscience, neither can it be understood apart from that
conflict. Therefore inexperienced and profane men judge ill
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