| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: a sort of incarnate "Told-you-so."
So the Vatican lifts its pontifical skirts and shakes the dust of
western Europe off its feet.
It is the most astounding renunciation in history.
Indubitably the Christian church took a wide stride from the
kingship of God when it placed a golden throne for the unbaptised
Constantine in the midst of its most sacred deliberations at
Nicaea. But it seems to me that this abandonment of moral
judgments in the present case by the Holy See is an almost wider
step from the church's allegiance to God....
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madame Firmiani by Honore de Balzac: I have never conceived of love otherwise than as a fire in which
all noble feelings are purified still more,--a fire which develops
them.
"'I have but one thing else to say: come to me poor, and my love
shall be redoubled. If not, renounce it. Should I see you no more,
I shall know what it means.
"'But I do not wish, understand me, that you should make
restitution because I urge it. Consult your own conscience. An act
of justice such as that ought not to be a sacrifice made to love.
I am your wife and not your mistress, and it is less a question of
pleasing me than of inspiring in my soul a true respect.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that sent us, stumbling and blinded, into a choking retreat.
There was naught to do other than seek a new avenue of
escape. The fire and smoke were to be feared a thousand
times over the water, and so I seized upon the first gallery
which led out of and up from the suffocating smoke that
was engulfing us.
Again I stood to one side while the soldiers hastened through
on the new way. Some two thousand must have passed at a rapid run,
when the stream ceased, but I was not sure that all had been rescued
who had not passed the point of origin of the flames, and so to assure
myself that no poor devil was left behind to die a horrible death,
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