| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: have forms which our external senses cannot grasp, but which are
perceptible to our inward senses when brought under certain
conditions. Thus your godfather's ideas might so enfold you that you
would clothe them with his bodily presence. Then, if Minoret really
committed those actions, they too resolve themselves into ideas; for
all action is the result of many ideas. Now, if ideas live and move in
a spiritual world, your spirit must be able to perceive them if it
penetrates that world. These phenomena are not more extraordinary than
those of memory; and those of memory are quite as amazing and
inexplicable as those of the perfume of plants--which are perhaps the
ideas of the plants."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: We could not see our body nor feel it,
and in that moment nothing existed save our
two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss.
Then we thought of the meaning of that
which lay before us. We can light our
tunnel, and the City, and all the Cities of
the world with nothing save metal and
wires. We can give our brothers a new
light, cleaner and brighter than any they
have ever known. The power of the sky
can be made to do men's bidding. There
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: want to see the Indies. I want to fight the Spaniards. Though I
am a gentleman's son, I'd a deal liever be a cabin-boy on board
your ship." And the lad, having hurried out his say fiercely
enough, dropped his head again.
"And you shall," cried Oxenham, with a great oath; "and take a
galloon, and dine off carbonadoed Dons. Whose son are you, my
gallant fellow?"
"Mr. Leigh's, of Burrough Court."
"Bless his soul! I know him as well as I do the Eddystone, and his
kitchen too. Who sups with him to-night?"
"Sir Richard Grenville."
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