| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: very easily. I wish you would hurry up and let me see it. Here is
a long while I have been waiting for something GOOD in art; and
what have I seen? Zola's DEBACLE and a few of Kipling's tales.
Are you a reader of Barbey d'Aurevilly? He is a never-failing
source of pleasure to me, for my sins, I suppose. What a work is
the RIDEAU CRAMOISI! and L'ENSORCELEE! and LE CHEVALIER DES
TOUCHES!
This is degenerating into mere twaddle. So please remember us all
most kindly to Mrs. Low, and believe me ever yours,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
P.S. - Were all your privateers voiceless in the war of 1812? Did
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: are greatly preoccupied about its conservation; that we do
not, properly speaking, love life at all, but living. Into
the views of the least careful there will enter some degree of
providence; no man's eyes are fixed entirely on the passing
hour; but although we have some anticipation of good health,
good weather, wine, active employment, love, and self-
approval, the sum of these anticipations does not amount to
anything like a general view of life's possibilities and
issues; nor are those who cherish them most vividly, at all
the most scrupulous of their personal safety. To be deeply
interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: I am the Knight of the Plume of Blue.
When Love Was Born
When Love was born I think he lay
Right warm on Venus' breast,
And whiles he smiled and whiles would play
And whiles would take his rest.
But always, folded out of sight,
The wings were growing strong
That were to bear him off in flight
Erelong, erelong.
The Shrine
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