| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: uncomfortable clothes, making ourselves and other people miserable by
the heathen horrors of mourning, staying away from the theatre because
we cannot afford the stalls and are ashamed to go to the pit, and in
dozens of other ways enslaving ourselves when there are comfortable
alternatives open to us without any real drawbacks. The contemplation
of these petty slaveries, and of the triumphant ease with which
sensible people throw them off, creates an impression that if we only
take Johnson's advice to free our minds from cant, we can achieve
freedom. But if we all freed our minds from cant we should find that
for the most part we should have to go on doing the necessary work of
the world exactly as we did it before until we organized new and free
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Or perhaps if it is a case of revenge.
"It cannot be revenge in this case!"
"The pastor was greatly loved?"
"He was loved and revered."
"By every one?"
"By every one!" the four men answered at once.
Muller was still a while. His eyes were veiled and his face
thoughtful. Finally he raised his head. "There has been nothing
moved or changed in this room?"
"No - neither here nor anywhere else in the house or the church,"
answered the local magistrate.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Hester -- come! Support me up yonder scaffold. "
The crowd was in a tumult. The men of rank and dignity, who
stood more immediately around the clergyman, were so taken by
surprise, and so perplexed as to the purport of what they saw --
unable to receive the explanation which most readily presented
itself, or to imagine any other -- that they remained silent and
inactive spectators of the judgement which Providence seemed
about to work. They beheld the minister, leaning on Hester's
shoulder, and supported by her arm around him, approach the
scaffold, and ascend its steps; while still the little
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