| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: utterly preposterous than to the immediate friend and
prospective bridesmaid, Miss Blanche Ingleside. To that young
lady, trained sedulously by a devoted mother, life was really a
serious thing. It meant the full rigor of the marriage market,
tempered only by dancing and new dresses. There was a stern
sense of duty beneath all her robing and disrobing; she
conscientiously did what was expected of her, and took her
little amusements meanwhile. It was supposed that most of the
purchasers in the market preferred slang and bare shoulders,
and so she favored them with plenty of both. It was merely the
law of supply and demand. Had John Lambert once hinted that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: [3] Fortnightly Review, April, 1875.
We must now make some more explicit mention of the ether which
carries through space the rays of heat and light. In closest
connection with the visible stellar universe, the vicissitudes of
which we have briefly traced, the all-pervading ether constitutes
a sort of unseen world remarkable enough from any point of view,
but to which the theory of our authors ascribes capacities
hitherto unsuspected by science. The very existence of an ocean
of ether enveloping the molecules of material bodies has been
doubted or denied by many eminent physicists, though of course
none have called in question the necessity for some interstellar
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: of a boa-constrictor at midnight--when you find it under your hip-
bone. There should also be plenty of evergreens near at hand for
the beds. Spruce will answer at a pinch; it has an aromatic smell;
but it is too stiff and humpy. Hemlock is smoother and more
flexible; but the spring soon wears out of it. The balsam-fir,
with its elastic branches and thick flat needles, is the best of
all. A bed of these boughs a foot deep is softer than a mattress
and as fragrant as a thousand Christmas-trees. Two things more are
needed for the ideal camp-ground--an open situation, where the
breeze will drive away the flies and mosquitoes, and an abundance
of dry firewood within easy reach. Yes, and a third thing must not
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