| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: and said not another word during the whole evening.
After once giving utterance to her will, Ginevra affected
inconceivable coolness. She opened the piano and sang, played charming
nocturnes and scherzos with a grace and sentiment which displayed a
perfect freedom of mind, thus triumphing over her father, whose
darkling face showed no softening. The old man was cruelly hurt by
this tacit insult; he gathered in this one moment the bitter fruits of
the training he had given to his daughter. Respect is a barrier which
protects parents as it does children, sparing grief to the former,
remorse to the latter.
The next day, when Ginevra sought to leave the house at the hour when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: While far the infernal tempest sped,
And shook the country folks in bed,
And tore the trees and tossed the ships,
He lingered and he licked his lips.
Lo, from within, a hush! the host
Briefly expressed the evening's toast;
And lo, before the lips were dry,
The Deacon rising to reply!
'Here in this house which once I built,
Papered and painted, carved and gilt,
And out of which, to my content,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: societies pass on slowly from their present barbarous and semi-savage
condition in matters of sex into a higher, it will be found increasingly,
that over and above its function in producing and sending onward the
physical stream of life (a function which humanity shares with the most
lowly animal and vegetable forms of life, and which even by some noted
thinkers of the present day seems to be regarded as its only possible
function,) that sex and the sexual relation between man and woman have
distinct aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual functions and ends, apart
entirely from physical reproduction. That noble as is the function of the
physical reproduction of humanity by the union of man and woman, rightly
viewed, that union has in it latent, other, and even higher forms, of
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