| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: He crops thy flowers while thou sittest smiling in his face,
Wiping his mild and meekin mouth from all contagious taints.
Thy wine doth purify the golden honey; thy perfume.
Which thou dost scatter on every little blade of grass that springs
Revives the milked cow, & tames the fire-breathing steed.
But Thel is like a faint cloud kindled at the rising sun:
I vanish from my pearly throne, and who shall find my place.
Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it glitters in the morning sky.
And why it scatters its bright beauty thro the humid air.
Descend O little cloud & hover before the eyes of Thel.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Guadalajara. They are there now."
"Well," observed Gethings, "From Guadalajara they can only go to
two places. Either they will take the Upper Road and go on to
Osterman's next, or they will take the Lower Road to Mr.
Derrick's."
"That is as I supposed," said Magnus. "That is why I wanted you
to come here. From Hooven's, here, we can watch both roads
simultaneously."
"Is anybody on the lookout on the Upper Road?"
"Cutter. He is on the Long Trestle."
"Say," observed Hooven, the instincts of the old-time soldier
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: "What! have you been standing for election? I didn't suppose, taking
into consideration the--rather troubled state of your finances, that
you could manage it."
"True, and I was not electioneering on my own account. Rastignac was
uneasy about the arrondissement of Arcis-sur-Aube, and he asked me to
go down there for a few days."
"Arcis-sur-Aube? Seems to me I read an article about that this morning
in one of those cabbage-leaves. Horrid choice, isn't it?--some
plasterer or image-maker they propose to send us?"
"Precisely; and it is about that very thing I have come to see you
before I see the others. I have just arrived, and I don't want to go
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