| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the world. About the south of France and Italy you will see one
beautiful sarsaparilla, with hooked prickles, zigzagging and
twining about over rocks and ruins, trunks and stems: and when
you do, if you have understanding, it will seem as strange to you
as it did to me to remember that the home of the sarsaparillas is
not in Europe, but in the forests of Brazil, and the River Plate.
Oh, I have heard about their growing there, and staining the
rivers brown, and making them good medicine to drink: but I never
thought there were any in Europe.
There are only one or two, and how they got there is a marvel
indeed. But now-- If there was not dry land between Africa and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: in the quail and grass-parrakeet.[15] The habit is intelligible
in these birds from their being accustomed, when in danger,
either to squat on the ground or to sit motionless on a branch,
so as to escape detection. Though, with birds, anger may be the chief
and commonest cause of the erection of the feathers, it is probable
that young cuckoos when looked at in the nest, and a hen with her
chickens when approached by a dog, feel at least some terror.
Mr. Tegetmeier informs me that with game-cocks, the erection of
the feathers on the head has long been recognized in the cock-pit
as a sign of cowardice.
The males of some lizards, when fighting together during their courtship,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supreme and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.
THRENOS.
Beauty, truth, and rarity.
Grace in all simplicity,
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