| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: Tears gathered in the eyes of the twins. "What is it, father?"
they both said.
"Nothing at all to any other two boys, but I don't know how
YOU'll take it. What if I was to ask you to live apart for a
while?"
"Oh father!" both cried. They leaned together, cheek pressing
cheek, and hand clasping hand, growing white and trembling. John
Vincent, gazing into the fire, did not see their faces, or his
purpose might have been shaken.
"I don't say NOW," he went on. "After a while, when--well, when
I'm dead. And I only mean a beginning, to help you toward what
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac: next to an old soldier with the right leg amputated, who had come in
with me. His face had struck me. He had one of those heroic heads,
stamped with the seal of warfare, and on which the battles of Napoleon
are written. Besides, he had that frank, good-humored expression which
always impresses me favorably. He was without doubt one of those
troopers who are surprised at nothing, who find matter for laughter in
the contortions of a dying comrade, who bury or plunder him quite
light-heartedly, who stand intrepidly in the way of bullets;--in fact,
one of those men who waste no time in deliberation, and would not
hesitate to make friends with the devil himself. After looking very
attentively at the proprietor of the menagerie getting out of his box,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: self-fertilised with their own pollen.
We thus see, that although there is a clear and fundamental difference
between the mere adhesion of grafted stocks, and the union of the male and
female elements in the act of reproduction, yet that there is a rude degree
of parallelism in the results of grafting and of crossing distinct species.
And as we must look at the curious and complex laws governing the facility
with which trees can be grafted on each other as incidental on unknown
differences in their vegetative systems, so I believe that the still more
complex laws governing the facility of first crosses, are incidental on
unknown differences, chiefly in their reproductive systems. These
differences, in both cases, follow to a certain extent, as might have been
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