| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: it faded away entirely, I would need, he said, his assistance:
is it possible his words can have been aught but the ravings of
insanity?"
"Doubt it not fear it not--but above all," said Ratcliffe, "let
us lose no time--are you at liberty, and unwatched?"
"I believe so," said Isabella: "but what would you have me to
do?"
"Leave the castle instantly," said Ratcliffe, "and throw yourself
at the feet of this extraordinary man, who in circumstances that
seem to argue the extremity of the most contemptible poverty,
possesses yet an almost absolute influence over your fate.--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: my dreams themselves answered. He lived in the long
ago, when the world was young, in that period that we
call the Mid-Pleistocene. He fell from the trees but
did not strike bottom. He gibbered with fear at the
roaring of the lions. He was pursued by beasts of
prey, struck at by deadly snakes. He chattered with
his kind in council, and he received rough usage at the
hands of the Fire People in the day that he fled before
them.
But, I hear you objecting, why is it that these racial
memories are not ours as well, seeing that we have a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oscar Wilde Miscellaneous by Oscar Wilde: passages for it.
Some years after Wilde's death I was looking over the papers and
letters rescued from Tite Street when I came across loose sheets of
manuscript and typewriting, which I imagined were fragments of The
Duchess of Padua; on putting them together in a coherent form I
recognised that they belonged to the lost Florentine Tragedy. I
assumed that the opening scene, though once extant, had disappeared.
One day, however, Mr. Willard wrote that he possessed a typewritten
fragment of a play which Wilde had submitted to him, and this he
kindly forwarded for my inspection. It agreed in nearly every
particular with what I had taken so much trouble to put together.
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