| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: true to fact, would have been a lie, or what is worse, a discord in
art. If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly
from the beginning. Now your book began to end well. You let
yourself fall in love with, and fondle, and smile at your puppets.
Once you had done that, your honour was committed - at the cost of
truth to life you were bound to save them. It is the blot on
RICHARD FEVEREL, for instance, that it begins to end well; and then
tricks you and ends ill. But in that case there is worse behind,
for the ill-ending does not inherently issue from the plot - the
story HAD, in fact, ENDED WELL after the great last interview
between Richard and Lucy - and the blind, illogical bullet which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: He would not have me answer him.
To hide my eyes within the night
I watch the changeful lighthouse gleam
Alternately with red and white.
My laughter smites upon my ears,
So one who cries and wakes from sleep
Knows not it is himself he hears.
What if my voice should let him know
The mocking words were all a sham,
And lips that laugh could tremble so?
What if I lost the power to lie,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: the Supper are the true body and blood of Christ, and are
given and received not only by the godly, but also by wicked
Christians.
And that not only one form is to be given. [For] we do not
need that high art [specious wisdom] which is to teach us that
under the one form there is as much as under both, as the
sophists and the Council of Constance teach. For even if it
were true that there is as much under one as under both, yet
the one form only is not the entire ordinance and institution
[made] ordained and commanded by Christ. And we especially
condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit
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