| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: look like the imperceptible black smuts which are shed in London by
the chimneys in which coal is burnt. . . . Your servant, sir! That
woman is more than thirty. She may be handsome, witty, loving--
whatever you please, but she is past thirty, she is arriving at
maturity. I do not blame men who attach themselves to that kind of
woman; only, a man of your superior distinction must not mistake a
winter pippin for a little summer apple, smiling on the bough, and
waiting for you to crunch it. Love never goes to study the registers
of birth and marriage; no one loves a woman because she is handsome or
ugly, stupid or clever; we love because we love."
"Well, for my part, I love for quite other reasons. She is Marquise
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: therefore entirely safe.
Then there are the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image." See how completely our understanding of
this command is changed, so soon as we realize that we are free
to make images of molten metal! And that we may with impunity bow
down to them and worship them and serve them--even, for instance,
a Golden Calf!
"The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy
manservant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the
stranger that is within thy gates." This, again, it will be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Torn for that purpose so soon as we reached Leicester,
but the Earl changed all our plans by his victory; and
only yesterday, on his orders the Princess Eleanor, his
wife, with the Lady Bertrade, rode to Battel, where
Simon de Montfort and the King are to be today. The
Queen also is there with her retinue, so it be expected
that, to show the good feeling and renewed friendship
existing between De Montfort and his King, there will
be gay scenes in the old fortress. But," he added, after
a pause, "dare the Outlaw of Torn ride within reach of
the King who has placed a price upon his head?"
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