| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: In the case of the French Revolution, indeed, the wickedness of
certain of its leaders was part of the retribution itself. For the
noblesse existed surely to make men better. It did, by certain
classes, the very opposite. Therefore it was destroyed by wicked
men, whom it itself had made wicked. For over and above all
political, economic, social wrongs, there were wrongs personal,
human, dramatic; which stirred not merely the springs of
covetousness or envy, or even of a just demand for the freedom of
labour and enterprise: but the very deepest springs of rage,
contempt, and hate; wrongs which caused, as I believe, the horrors
of the Revolution.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife.
Morning at the Window
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: another. . . Suddenly I saw Kazbich start,
change countenance, and dart to the window;
but unfortunately the window looked on to the
back courtyard.
"'What is the matter with you?' I asked.
"'My horse! . . . My horse!' he cried, all
of a tremble.
"As a matter of fact I heard the clattering of
hoofs.
"'It is probably some Cossack who has
ridden up.'
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