| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: might change, two qualities were constant in it. It was a place where
feelings were liberated from the constraint which the real world puts
upon them; and the process of awakenment was always marked by
resignation and a kind of stoical acceptance of facts. She met no
acquaintance there, as Denham did, miraculously transfigured; she
played no heroic part. But there certainly she loved some magnanimous
hero, and as they swept together among the leaf-hung trees of an
unknown world, they shared the feelings which came fresh and fast as
the waves on the shore. But the sands of her liberation were running
fast; even through the forest branches came sounds of Rodney moving
things on his dressing-table; and Katharine woke herself from this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: As that within live creatures as a whole.
But of themselves those parts can never feel,
For all the sense in every member back
To something else refers- a severed hand,
Or any other member of our frame,
Itself alone cannot support sensation.
It thus remains they must resemble, then,
Live creatures as a whole, to have the power
Of feeling sensation concordant in each part
With the vital sense; and so they're bound to feel
The things we feel exactly as do we.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: June I found myself in the mighty city of London that I had never
yet visited, and kneeling down in the chamber of my inn, I thanked
God that after enduring so many dangers and hardships, it had
pleased Him to preserve me to set foot again on English soil.
Indeed to this hour I count it nothing short of marvellous that
this frail body of a man should survive all the sorrows and risks
of death by sickness, hunger, battle, murder, drowning, wild
beasts, and the cruelty of men, to which mine had been exposed for
many years.
In London I bought a good horse, through the kind offices of the
host of my inn, and on the morrow at daybreak I set out upon the
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