| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: were greatly revived and comforted by that good creature-
fire, which gives us warmth and light and companionable
sounds, and colours up the emptiest building with better than
frescoes. For a while it was even pleasant in the forge,
with the blaze in the midst, and a look over our shoulders on
the woods and mountains where the day was dying like a
dolphin.
It was between seven and eight before Hanson arrived, with a
waggonful of our effects and two of his wife's relatives to
lend him a hand. The elder showed surprising strength. He
would pick up a huge packing-case, full of books of all
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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: players who, having to die in grim earnest on a cross or gallows,
were naturally drawn from the gaol rather than the green-room. A
chain of causes, which because we cannot follow them might--in
the loose language of common life--be called an accident,
determined that the part of the dying god in this annual play
should be thrust upon Jesus of Nazareth, whom the enemies he had
made in high places by his outspoken strictures were resolved to
put out of the way." See also vol. iv, "The Dying God," in the
same book.
There are many other difficulties. The raising of Lazarus,
already dead three days, the turning of water into wine
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: might have been observed winding by devious tracks about the
shoulder of the mountain. They came from far away, from
Amador or Placer, laden with silver in "old cigar boxes."
They discharged their load at Silverado, in the hour of
sleep; and before the morning they were gone again with their
mysterious drivers to their unknown source. In this way,
twenty thousand pounds' worth of silver was smuggled in under
cover of night, in these old cigar boxes; mixed with
Silverado mineral; carted down to the mill; crushed,
amalgated, and refined, and despatched to the city as the
proper product of the mine. Stock-jobbing, if it can cover
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