| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: apparent conflict between their religious feelings and their
knowledge need ever arise. But with the first advance in our
knowledge of nature the case is altered. New and strange theories
are naturally regarded with fear and dislike by persons who have
always been accustomed to find the sanction and justification of
their emotional prompting toward righteousness in old familiar
theories which the new ones are seeking to supplant. Such persons
oppose the new doctrine because their engrained mental habits
compel them to believe that its establishment will in some way
lower men's standard of life, and make them less careful of their
spiritual welfare. This is the case, at all events, when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: animal, the yearning of a plant for the sun, the airy motion of a
branch waltzing to the breeze. As she unbuttoned the wristbands of her
sleeves, she began to sing, not in the pitch that won her the applause
of an audience at the /Fenice/, but in a warble tender with emotion.
Her song was a zephyr carrying the caresses of her love to the heart.
She stole a glance at Emilio, who was as much embarrassed as she; for
this woman of the stage had lost all the boldness that had sparkled in
her eyes and given decision to her voice and gestures when she
dismissed the Duke. She was as humble as a courtesan who has fallen in
love.
To picture la Tinti you must recall one of our best French singers
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: all in each other's eyes, saw so much that there was no need of a
pretext for sounding it at last. "Your danger, your danger--!"
Her voice indeed trembled with it, and she could only for the
moment again leave it so.
During this moment he leaned back on the bench, meeting her in
silence and with a face that grew more strange. It grew so strange
that after a further instant she got straight up. She stood there
as if their talk were now over, and he just sat and watched her.
It was as if now--owing to the third person they had brought in--
they must be more careful; so that the most he could finally say
was: "That's where it is!"
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