| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: preliminary conditions for his task; this task itself demands
something else--it requires him TO CREATE VALUES. The
philosophical workers, after the excellent pattern of Kant and
Hegel, have to fix and formalize some great existing body of
valuations--that is to say, former DETERMINATIONS OF VALUE,
creations of value, which have become prevalent, and are for a
time called "truths"--whether in the domain of the LOGICAL, the
POLITICAL (moral), or the ARTISTIC. It is for these investigators
to make whatever has happened and been esteemed hitherto,
conspicuous, conceivable, intelligible, and manageable, to
shorten everything long, even "time" itself, and to SUBJUGATE the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: It is singular that this hope should not have led him instantly
to turn his back and move away; but the explanation of his
imprudent delay is simply that he wished to see a little more
of Miss Vivian. He was unable to bring himself to the point.
Those clever things that he might have said to her quite faded away.
The only good taste was to take himself off, and spare her
the trouble of inventing civilities that she could not feel.
And yet he continued to sit there from moment to moment, arrested,
detained, fascinated, by the accident of her not looking round--
of her having let him watch her so long. She turned another page,
and another, and her reading absorbed her still. He was so near her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: him in the direction of the city. One thing was plain, among
so much that was obscure: it was plain her fears were
genuine. Still, as she went, she spied around as if for
dangers; and now she would shiver like a person in a chill,
and now clutch his arm in hers. To Challoner her terror was
at once repugnant and infectious; it gained and mastered,
while it still offended him; and he wailed in spirit and
longed for release.
'Madam,' he said at last, 'I am, of course, charmed to be of
use to any lady; but I confess I was bound in a direction
opposite to that you follow, and a word of explanation - '
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