| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: increasing phosphorescence. Cavor's despatches show him to be curiously
regardless of detail for a scientific man, but we gather that this light
was due to the streams and cascades of water - "no doubt containing some
phosphorescent organism" - that flowed ever more abundantly downward
towards the Central Sea. And as he descended, he says, "The Selenites also
became luminous." And at last far below him he saw, as it were, a lake of
heatless fire, the waters of the Central Sea, glowing and eddying in
strange perturbation, "like luminous blue milk that is just on the boil."
"This Lunar Sea," says Cavor, in a later passage "is not a stagnant ocean;
a solar tide sends it in a perpetual flow around the lunar axis, and
strange storms and boilings and rushings of its waters occur, and at times
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded.
That it cried how true a twain
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: They parted,--the Vendean leader convinced of the necessity of
yielding to circumstances and keeping his beliefs in the depths of his
heart; La Billardiere to return to his negotiations in England; and
Montauran to fight savagely and compel the Vendeans, by the victories
he expected to win, to co-operate in his enterprise.
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The events of the day had excited such violent emotions in
Mademoiselle de Verneuil's whole being that she lay back almost
fainting in the carriage, after giving the order to drive to Fougeres.
Francine was as silent as her mistress. The postilion, dreading some
new disaster, made all the haste he could to reach the high-road, and
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