| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: of Mr. Thomas Leigh's horses standing at the door, held by his
groom, saddles and mail-bags on back, and mounting three of them,
Eustace Leigh and two strange gentlemen.
"There's one lie already this morning," growled Amyas; "he told us
he was going to Northam."
"And we do not know that he has not been there," blandly suggested
Frank.
"Why, you are as bad a Jesuit as he, to help him out with such a
fetch."
"He may have changed his mind."
"Bless your pure imagination, my sweet boy," said Amyas, laying his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: How much of what follows I said to de Tessin at the time I do not
clearly remember, but this is what I had in mind.
The idea of the superman is an idea that has been developed by
various people ignorant of biology and unaccustomed to biological
ways of thinking. It is an obvious idea that follows in the
course of half an hour or so upon one's realisation of the
significance of Darwinism. If man has evolved from something
different, he must now be evolving onward into something sur-
human. The species in the future will be different from the
species of the past. So far at least our Nietzsches and Shaws
and so on went right.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: not exposed to it, to this pressure and division of feeling, this
extraordinary temptation. Her father was feeling in his pockets; in
another second, he would have found his book. For no one attracted her
more; his hands were beautiful, and his feet, and his voice, and his
words, and his haste, and his temper, and his oddity, and his passion,
and his saying straight out before every one, we perish, each alone,
and his remoteness. (He had opened his book.) But what remained
intolerable, she thought, sitting upright, and watching Macalister's
boy tug the hook out of the gills of another fish, was that crass
blindness and tyranny of his which had poisoned her childhood and
raised bitter storms, so that even now she woke in the night trembling
 To the Lighthouse |