| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: "Very well, so I will." said Gabriel calmly. He had
been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained
him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he
could not break. "I should be even better pleased to
go at once." he added.
"Go at once then, in Heaven's name!" said she,her
eyes flashing at his, though never meeting them.
"Don't let me see your face any more."
"Very well, Miss Everdene -- so it shall be."
And he took his shears and went away from her in
placid dignity, as Moses left the presence of Pharaoh.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: that there should be some slight preparation in this world for a
future transmigration of souls. Still one fails to conceive that
the practice can be devoid of disadvantages even to its beneficiaries.
To foreigners it proves disastrously perplexing. For if you chance
upon a man whom you have not met for some time, you can never be
quite sure how to accost him. If you begin, "Well met, Green, how
goes it?" as likely as not he replies, "Finely. But I am no longer
Green; I have become Brown. I was adopted last month by my maternal
grandfather." You of course apologize for your unfortunate mistake,
carefully note his change of hue for a future occasion, and behold,
on meeting him the next time you find he has turned Black. Such a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: had written a chapter the day before in which the officials of
the upper classes got it hot for preventing him, as he expressed
it, from averting the ruin towards which the present rulers of
Russia were driving it, which simply meant that they had prevented
his getting a better salary. And now he was considering what a
new light to posterity this chapter would shed on events.
"Yes, certainly," he said, in reply to the words addressed to him
by Wolf, without listening to them.
Bay was listening to Wolf with a sad face and drawing a garland
on the paper that lay before him. Bay was a Liberal of the very
first water. He held sacred the Liberal traditions of the sixth
Resurrection |
