| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: hated Plowden? No--he said to himself that it was not.
He was going to marry Lady Cressage himself. Her letter,
signifying delicately her assent to his proposal,
had come to him that very morning--was in his pocket now.
What did he care about the bye-gone aspirations of
other would-be suitors? And, as for Plowden, he had
not even known of her return to London. Clearly there
remained no communications of any sort between them.
It was not at all on her account, he assured himself,
that he had turned against Plowden. But what other reason
could there be? He observed his visitor's perturbed
The Market-Place |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: Christian theology--a theology virtually absent from the direct
teaching of Christ--and all of Judaistic literature or prescriptions
not made immortal in their application by unassailable truth and by
the confirmation of science. An excellent remedy for the nonsense
which still clings about religion may be found in two books: Cotter
Monson's 'Service of Man,' which was published as long ago as 1887,
and has since been re-issued by the Rationalist Press Association in
its well-known sixpenny series, and J. Allanson Picton's 'Man and
the Bible.' Similarly, those who wish to acquire a sane view of the
relations between man and God would do well to read Winwood Reade's
'Martyrdom of Man.'"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons;
thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome
return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you. Lastly,
grant Telemachus and myself a happy issue, in respect of the
matter that has brought us in our ship to Pylos."
When she had thus made an end of praying, she handed the cup to
Telemachus and he prayed likewise. By and by, when the outer
meats were roasted and had been taken off the spits, the carvers
gave every man his portion and they all made an excellent
dinner. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Nestor,
knight of Gerene, began to speak.
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