| 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: down precise rules of right and wrong conduct; to discriminate
infallibly between virtuous and vicious character; and all this with
such certainty that they are prepared to visit all the rigors of the
law, and all the ruinous penalties of social ostracism on people,
however harmless their actions maybe who venture to laugh at their
monstrous conceit or to pay their assumptions the extravagant
compliment of criticizing them. As to children, who shall say what
canings and birchings and terrifyings and threats of hell fire and
impositions and humiliations and petty imprisonings and sendings to
bed and standing in corners and the like they have suffered because
their parents and guardians and teachers knew everything so much
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the
library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated
king.
While thus profitably employed I heard the east door of the
living-room open and someone enter. I thought it was Shea
returning to speak with me on some matter of tomorrow's work; but
when I raised my eyes to the doorway that connects the two rooms
I saw framed there the figure of a bronzed giant, his otherwise
naked body trapped with a jewel-encrusted harness from which
there hung at one side an ornate short-sword and at the other a
pistol of strange pattern. The black hair, the steel-gray eyes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: I really loved you. I am also the soldier that overset your stall. I
have done all this only to cure you of your silly pride, and to show
you the folly of your ill-treatment of me. Now all is over: you have
learnt wisdom, and it is time to hold our marriage feast.'
Then the chamberlains came and brought her the most beautiful robes;
and her father and his whole court were there already, and welcomed
her home on her marriage. Joy was in every face and every heart. The
feast was grand; they danced and sang; all were merry; and I only wish
that you and I had been of the party.
IRON HANS
There was once upon a time a king who had a great forest near his
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