| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: that tore us away from the earth have torn away the moon as well?
After wandering about as she would for a while in the solar regions,
I do not see why she should not have attached herself to us."
The lieutenant repeated his conviction that it was not likely.
"But why not?" again asked Servadac impetuously.
"Because, I tell you, the mass of Gallia is so inferior to that
of the moon, that Gallia would become the moon's satellite;
the moon could not possibly become hers."
"Assuming, however," continued Servadac, "such to be the case--"
"I am afraid," said the lieutenant, interrupting him, "that I
cannot assume anything of the sort even for a moment."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: in winter, by the poison of perpetual gas, and at all times by the
presence of hams, cheese, dried fish, soap, varnish, paraffin and
other solids and fluids that she came to know perfectly by their
smells without consenting to know them by their names.
The barrier that divided the little post-and-telegraph-office from
the grocery was a frail structure of wood and wire; but the social,
the professional separation was a gulf that fortune, by a stroke
quite remarkable, had spared her the necessity of contributing at
all publicly to bridge. When Mr. Cocker's young men stepped over
from behind the other counter to change a five-pound note--and Mr.
Cocker's situation, with the cream of the "Court Guide" and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: was perfectly in order, because there is plenty of evidence to
show that in SAVAGE initiations, of which the Mysteries were
the linear descendants, all these things WERE explained to
the novices, and their use actually taught.[4] No doubt also
there were some representations or dramatic incidents of
a fairly coarse character, as deriving from these ancient
sources.[5] It is, however, quaint to observe how the mere
mention of such things has caused an almost hysterical
commotion among the critics of the Mysteries--from the
day of the early Christians who (in order to belaud their
own religion) were never tired of abusing the Pagans, onward
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