| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: any
time during the first months she was in his employ, he would have
been unable to tell the color of her eyes. From the fact that
she
was a demiblonde, there resided dimly in his subconsciousness a
conception that she was a brunette. Likewise he had an idea that
she was not thin, while there was an absence in his mind of any
idea that she was fat. As to how she dressed, he had no ideas at
all. He had no trained eye in such matters, nor was he
interested.
He took it for granted, in the lack of any impression to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: For which all worldlings try:
But who would stand in hempen band
Upon a scaffold high,
And through a murderer's collar take
His last look at the sky?
It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: saw her in the garden. Her spirit, all in white, with a blue flower
in her belt. I knew she was dead across the sea. I tried to call
to her, but my voice made no sound. She seemed not to see me. She
moved like one in a dream, straight on, and vanished. Is there no
one who can tell her? Must she never know that I loved her?"
The last thing in the book was a printed scrap of paper that lay
between the leaves:
IRREVOCABLE
"Would the gods might give
Another field for human strife;
Man must live one life
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