| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Lady. Donalbaine
Mac. This is a sorry sight
Lady. A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight
Macb. There's one did laugh in's sleepe,
And one cry'd Murther, that they did wake each other:
I stood, and heard them: But they did say their Prayers,
And addrest them againe to sleepe
Lady. There are two lodg'd together
Macb. One cry'd God blesse vs, and Amen the other,
As they had seene me with these Hangmans hands:
Listning their feare, I could not say Amen,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: "I think it's a good deal more important to know how you'll ever get them
out," answered Rudolph, who was of a practical turn of mind.
"I'll tell you what," said Tattine thoughtfully, "shouldn't wonder if they
belong to Betsy. I've seen her crowding herself through one of the air-holes
under the piazza several times lately," whereupon the children hurried to peer
through the air hole. Nothing was to be seen, however, for the piazza floor
was not more than a foot and a half from the ground, and it was filled with
all sorts of weeds that flourished without sunshine. Still the little puppy
cries were persistently wafted out from some remote corner, and, pulling off
his jacket, Rudolph started to crawl in and investigate. It did not seem
possible that he could make his way, for the place was not high enough for him
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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: least as distinct from the ideals which dominate thousands of their male
descendants holding corresponding positions in the societies of today, as
are the ideals of her great-great-grand mother's remote from those
dominating the most modern of New Women.
That which most forces itself upon us as the result of a close personal
study of those sections of modern European societies in which change and
adaptation to the new conditions of life are now most rapidly progressing,
is, not merely that equally large bodies of men and women are being rapidly
modified as to their sexual and social ideals and as to their mode of life,
but that this change is strictly complementary.
If the ideal of the modern woman becomes increasingly one inconsistent with
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