| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: Lammermoors, upon the south, to the Ord of Caithness on the
north. That the blundering guess of a dull chronicler should
have inspired men with imaginary loathing for their own
ancestors is already strange: that it should have begotten
this wild legend seems incredible. Is it possible the
chronicler's error was merely nominal? that what he told, and
what the people proved themselves so ready to receive, about
the Picts, was true or partly true of some anterior and
perhaps Lappish savages, small of stature, black of hue,
dwelling underground - possibly also the distillers of some
forgotten spirit? See Mr. Campbell's TALES OF THE WEST
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: answered Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling.
And, putting on his coat as he went, he patted the footman on the
head, chuckled, and went out.
"At five o'clock, and not evening dress, please," he shouted once
more, turning at the door.
Chapter 9
It was past five, and several guests had already arrived, before
the host himself got home. He went in together with Sergey
Ivanovitch Koznishev and Pestsov, who had reached the street door
at the same moment. These were the two leading representatives of
the Moscow intellectuals, as Oblonsky had-called them. Both were
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: placed them. This sentiment has degenerated into a kind of religious
superstition in families to which cretins belong; but does it not
spring from the most beautiful of Christian virtues--from charity, and
from a belief in a reward hereafter, that most effectual support of
our social system, and the one thought that enables us to endure our
miseries? The hope of inheriting eternal bliss helps the relations of
these unhappy creatures and all others round about them to exert on a
large scale, and with sublime devotion, a mother's ceaseless
protecting care over an apathetic creature who does not understand it
in the first instance, and who in a little while forgets it all.
Wonderful power of religion! that has brought a blind beneficence to
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