| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: cemetery. Paul, sobbing, headed the procession; Monsieur Bourais
followed, and then came the principle inhabitants of the town, the
women covered with black capes, and Felicite. The memory of her
nephew, and the thought that she had not been able to render him these
honours, made her doubly unhappy, and she felt as if he were being
buried with Virginia.
Madame Aubain's grief was uncontrollable. At first she rebelled
against God, thinking that he was unjust to have taken away her child
--she who had never done anything wrong, and whose conscience was so
pure! But no! she ought to have taken her South. Other doctors would
have saved her. She accused herself, prayed to be able to join her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: that the whole story is physically impossible. As a record
of actual events the story is impossible; but as a record
or series of notes derived from the witnessing of a "mystery-
play"--and such plays with VERY SIMILAR incidents were common
enough in antiquity in connection with cults of a dying
Savior, it very likely IS true (one can see the very dramatic
character of the incidents: the washing of hands, the
threefold denial by Peter, the purple robe and crown
of thorns, and so forth); and as such it is now accepted
by many well-qualified authorities.[1]
[1] Dr. Frazer in The Golden Bough (vol. ix, "The Scapegoat," p.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: The old duke never doubted his son's obedience; Etienne, to him, was
the son of his mother, of the same dough, docile to his kneading.
"Let him have a child and die," thought the old man; "little I care."
"Father," said the young man, in a gentle voice, "I do not understand
you."
"Come into your own room, I have a few words to say to you," replied
the duke, leading the way into the state bedroom.
Etienne followed his father. The three ladies, stirred with a
curiosity that was shared by Baron d'Artagnon, walked about the great
salon in a manner to group themselves finally near the door of the
bedroom, which the duke had left partially open.
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