| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: first to his magn, and then to his breve. He experienced a
cauterising sensation - a feeling of healing pain.
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Maskull's second day on Tormance dawned. Branchspell was already
above the horizon when he awoke. He was instantly aware that his
organs had changed during the night. His fleshy breve was altered
into an eyelike sorb; his magn had swelled and developed into a third
arm, springing from the breast. The arm gave him at once a sense of
greater physical security, but with the sorb he was obliged to
experiment, before he could grasp its function.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: face--and again broke into song. He was on his way to get the
mail, and had passed McGaw's house but a few moments before, in
the hope that that worthy Knight might be either leaning over the
fence or seated on the broken-down porch. He was anxious McGaw
should hear a few improvised stanzas of a new ballad he had
composed to that delightful old negro melody, "Massa's in de cold,
cold ground," in which the much-beloved Southern planter and the
thoroughly hated McGaw changed places in the cemetery.
That valiant Knight was still in bed, exhausted by the labors of
the previous evening. Young Billy, however, was about the
stables, and so Mr. James Finnegan took occasion to tarry long
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: the woman, Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an
inferior. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages-
at-love with women beneath him. Though gentle, ambition was
visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped
indefinitely, but extensively. Elfride was puzzled, and being
puzzled, was, by a natural sequence of girlish sensations, vexed
with him. No more pleasure came in recognizing that from liking
to attract him she was getting on to love him, boyish as he was
and innocent as he had seemed.
They reached the bridge which formed a link between the eastern
and western halves of the parish. Situated in a valley that was
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