| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: spake in their midst, saying:
'"Friends, forasmuch as there is yet meat and drink in the
swift ship, let us keep our hands off those kine, lest some
evil thing befal us. For these are the kine and the brave
flocks of a dread god, even of Helios, who overseeth all
and overheareth all things."
'So I spake, and their lordly spirit hearkened thereto.
Then for a whole month the South Wind blew without ceasing,
and no other wind arose, save only the East and the South.
'Now so long as my company still had corn and red wine,
they refrained them from the kine, for they were fain of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: But it is with neither of these composite forms of mother that any story
deals.
"Ethel has always maintained that if I had really understood her, it
never would have happened. She says--"
"Richard, I"--
"My dear, you shall tell your story afterwards, and I promise to listen
without a word until you are finished. Mrs. Field says that if I had
understood her nature as a man ought to understand the girl he has been
thinking about for several years, I should have known she cared nothing
about my income."
"I didn't care! I'd have"--but Mr. Field checked her outburst.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: passionate affection for each other (in the case of the South African cock-
o-veet, they have one answering love-song between them; the male sounding
two or three notes and the female completing it with two or three more),
but they build the nest together and rear the young with an equal devotion.
In the case of the little kapok bird of the Cape, a beautiful, white,
fluffy round nest is made by both out of the white down of a certain plant,
and immediately below the entrance to the cavity in which the little female
sits on the eggs is a small shelf or basket, in which the tiny male sits to
watch over and guard them. It is among certain orders of birds that sex
manifestations appear to assume their most harmonious and poetical forms on
earth. Among gallinaceous birds, on the other hand, where the cock is much
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