| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: had lost their dearest. So she was dead; and Mr Andrew killed; and
Miss Prue dead too, they said, with her first baby; but everyone had
lost some one these years. Prices had gone up shamefully, and didn't
come down again neither. She could well remember her in her grey
cloak.
"Good-evening, Mrs McNab," she said, and told cook to keep a plate of
milk soup for her--quite thought she wanted it, carrying that heavy
basket all the way up from town. She could see her now, stooping over
her flowers; and faint and flickering, like a yellow beam or the circle
at the end of a telescope, a lady in a grey cloak, stooping over her
flowers, went wandering over the bedroom wall, up the dressing-table,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: But Orde, a thick slice of bread half-way to his lips, had frozen in
an attitude of attentive listening.
"Hark!" said he.
Faint, still in the depths of the forest, the wandering morning
breeze bore to their ears a sound whose difference from the louder
noises nearer at hand alone rendered it audible.
"The troops!" exclaimed Orde.
He seized a lantern and returned down the trail, followed eagerly by
Newmark and every man in camp.
"Troops coming!" said Orde to Daly.
The men drew a little to one side, watching the dim line of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: religious life as they are here conceived and present them as if
they were the antithesis of the religious life. His book, when it
is analysed, resolves itself into just that research for an escape
from the painful accidents and chagrins of individuation, which is
the ultimate of religion.
At times, indeed, he seems almost wilfully blind to the true
solution round and about which his writing goes. He suggests as his
most hopeful satisfaction for the cravings of the human heart, such
a scientific prolongation of life that the instinct for self-
preservation will be at last extinct. If that is not the very
"resignation" he imputes to the Buddhist I do not know what it is.
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