| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: vapours. Now and then there would be suggestions of motion in
the sky, but these my early visions never resolved.
By the autumn
of 1914 I began to have infrequent dreams of strange floatings
over the city and through the regions around it. I saw interminable
roads through forests of fearsome growths with mottled, fluted,
and banded trunks, and past other cities as strange as the one
which persistently haunted me.
I saw monstrous constructions
of black or iridescent tone in glades and clearings where perpetual
twilight reigned, and traversed long causeways over swamps so
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: always at heart an infidel." Seeing she had been taken into the
Church of England at the mature age of five weeks, this statement
does not do credit to the Chaplain's wife.
Lispeth was a very old woman when she died. She always had a
perfect command of English, and when she was sufficiently drunk,
could sometimes be induced to tell the story of her first love-
affair.
It was hard then to realize that the bleared, wrinkled creature, so
like a wisp of charred rag, could ever have been "Lispeth of the
Kotgarth Mission."
THREE AND--AN EXTRA.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: children into their moulds. Every child has a right to its own bent.
It has a right to be a Plymouth Brother though its parents be
convinced atheists. It has a right to dislike its mother or father or
sister or brother or uncle or aunt if they are antipathetic to it. It
has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way
seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a
right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as
if it were its own father.
Small and Large Families
These rights have now become more important than they used to be,
because the modern practice of limiting families enables them to be
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