| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and place a new king upon England's throne, and then
De Vac would mock the Plantagenet to his face. Sweet,
kind, delectable vengeance, indeed! and the old man
licked his thin lips as though to taste the last sweet
vestige of some dainty morsel.
And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath
the window where the old man stood; and as the child
ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him,
and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog
before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened
to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: "The *tutoyer* of the Italian voice is agreeable, however."
"It makes one dreamy."
"A child."
"Yes, a child; not a man nor a woman."
"I teach music. I can not dream over 'one, two, three.'"
"*You*--a music teacher!"
"For six years."
I was aware that he looked at me from head to foot, and I picked
at the lace on my invariable black silk; but what did it matter
whether I owned that I was a genteel pauper, representing my aunt's
position for two months, or not?
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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: reproduces a photograph of an Initiation dance among
the Akikuyu of British East Africa.) The Initiation-
dances blend insensibly and naturally with the Mystery
and Religion dances, for indeed initiation was for the most
part an instruction in the mysteries and social rites of
the Tribe. They were the expression of things which
would be hard even for us, and which for rude folk would
be impossible, to put into definite words. Hence arose
the expression--whose meaning has been much discussed
by the learned--"to dance out () a mystery."[1]
Lucian, in a much-quoted passage,[2] observes: "You cannot
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