| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: them from her sight if you can. She would flare up at them and
make trouble, in her small but quite decided and resolute way; for
she has a character of her own, and lacks neither promptness nor
initiative. Sometimes her judgment is at fault, but I think her
intentions are always right. Once when she was a little creature
of three or four years she suddenly brought her tiny foot down upon
the floor in an apparent outbreak of indignation, then fetched it a
backward wipe, and stooped down to examine the result. Her mother
said:
"Why, what is it, child? What has stirred you so?"
"Mamma, the big ant was trying to kill the little one."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: around us for ten miles; sure, if in any quarter of this land
a man were safe from spies, it were in such a station; but it
was in the very ague-fit of terror that he told me, and that
I heard, his story. He had received a letter such as this;
and he submitted to my approval an answer, in which he
offered to resign a third of his possessions. I conjured
him, as he valued life, to raise his offering; and, before we
parted, he had doubled the amount. Well, two days later he
was gone - gone from the chief street of the city in the hour
of noon - and gone for ever. O God!' cried my father, 'by
what art do they thus spirit out of life the solid body?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: from which springs so large a part of the tragedy of modern conjugal
relations. The primitive male might discuss with her his success in
hunting and her success in finding roots; as the primitive peasant may
discuss today with his wife the crops and cows in which both are equally
interested and which both understand; there is nothing in their order of
life to produce always increasingly divergent habits of thought and
interest.
In modern civilised life, in many sections, the lack of any common labour
and interests and the wide dissimilarity of the life led by the man and the
woman, tend continually to produce increasing divergence; so that, long
before middle life is reached, they are left without any bond of co-
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