| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered
villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows.
"We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have
touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in
Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent.
See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside
that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have
little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet."
"But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I
asked.
"Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: you call listening to people's private business a sight.
Why, says he, it is the School for Scandalization.--
The School for Scandalization!--Oh! ho! no wonder
you New-York folks are so cute at it, when you go to
school to learn it; and so I jogged off.
JESSAMY
My dear Jenny, my master's business drags me from
you; would to heaven I knew no other servitude than
to your charms.
JONATHAN
Well, but don't go; you won't leave me so--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: ways of rousing superstitious attention and imagination.
Such another word is 'Serpent,' another 'Tree,' and so
forth. There is no one who is insensible to the reverberation
of these and other such words and images[1]; and
among them, standing prominently out, are the two
'Mother' and 'Virgin.' The word Mother touches the deepest
springs of human feeling. As the earliest word
learnt and clung to by the child, it twines itself with the
heart-strings of the man even to his latest day. Nor
must we forget that in a primitive state of society (the
Matriarchate) that influence was probably even greater
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