| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: her hair in a plait; she looked about fourteen. Lord! how his nose used to
peel! And the amount they ate, and the amount they slept in that immense
feather bed with their feet locked together...William couldn't help a grim
smile as he thought of Isabel's horror if she knew the full extent of his
sentimentality.
...
"Hillo, William!" She was at the station after all, standing just as he
had imagined, apart from the others, and--William's heart leapt--she was
alone.
"Hallo, Isabel!" William stared. He thought she looked so beautiful that
he had to say something, "You look very cool."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: been explained, to excite into activity that part of the sensorium,
which receives the sensory nerves of the face; and this will
react through the vaso-motor system on the facial capillaries.
By frequent reiteration during numberless generations, the process
will have become so habitual, in association with the belief that others
are thinking of us, that even a suspicion of their depreciation suffices
to relax the capillaries, without any conscious thought about our faces.
With some sensitive persons it is enough even to notice their dress
to produce the same effect. Through the force, also, of association
and inheritance our capillaries are relaxed, whenever we know,
or imagine, that any one is blaming, though in silence, our actions,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Duncan," answered Montrose, "who brought the country to the pass
in which it now stands, and rendered necessary the sharp remedies
which we are now reluctantly about to use."
"And what rank among these self-seekers," said Sir Duncan
Campbell, "we shall assign to a noble Earl, so violently attached
to the Covenant, that he was the first, in 1639, to cross the
Tyne, wading middle deep at the head of his regiment, to charge
the royal forces? It was the same, I think, who imposed the
Covenant upon the burgesses and colleges of Aberdeen, at the
point of sword and pike."
"I understand your sneer, Sir Duncan," said Montrose,
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