| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: herself sufficiently to escape.
As she neared the city the warriors rushed out upon the
plain to meet her, but it was evident that she still was too high
for them to hope to reach her decks. From my vantage point in
the window I could see the bodies of her crew strewn about,
although I could not make out what manner of creatures they
might be. Not a sign of life was manifest upon her as she
drifted slowly with the light breeze in a southeasterly
direction.
She was drifting some fifty feet above the ground, followed
by all but some hundred of the warriors who had been ordered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: Not only the title, but the plan and a good deal of the
incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested
by Miss Jessie L. Weston's book on the Grail legend:
_From Ritual to Romance_ (Macmillan).<1> Indeed,
so deeply am I indebted, Miss Weston's book will elucidate
the diffi-culties of the poem much better than my notes can do;
and I recommend it (apart from the great interest of the book itself)
to any who think such elucidation of the poem worth the trouble.
To another work of anthropo-logy I am indebted in general, one which has
influenced our generation profoundly; I mean _The Golden Bough_; I have
used especially the two volumes _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_. Anyone who is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: "I shall weary you," continued he, "by my egotism; and did
not powerful emotions draw me to you,"--his eyes glistened as he
spoke, and a trembling seemed to run through his manly frame,--
"I would not waste these precious moments in talking of myself.
"My father and mother were people of fashion; married by their
parents. He was fond of the turf, she of the card-table. I, and
two or three other children since dead, were kept at home till we
became intolerable. My father and mother had a visible dislike to
each other, continually displayed; the servants were of the depraved
kind usually found in the houses of people of fortune. My brothers
and parents all dying, I was left to the care of guardians; and
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