| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: prostrate before him."
She had an air of earnestness. "Do you think then he's so
perfect?"
"Far from it. Some of his later books seem to me of a queerness -
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"Yes, yes - he knows that."
Paul Overt stared. "That they seem to me of a queerness - !"
"Well yes, or at any rate that they're not what they should be. He
told me he didn't esteem them. He has told me such wonderful
things - he's so interesting."
There was a certain shock for Paul Overt in the knowledge that the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: smell him distinctly!" and at the word "Snowball" all the dogs let out
blood-curdling growls and showed their side teeth.
The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though
Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about
them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers. In the evening Squealer
called them together, and with an alarmed expression on his face told
them that he had some serious news to report.
"Comrades!" cried Squealer, making little nervous skips, "a most terrible
thing has been discovered. Snowball has sold himself to Frederick of
Pinchfield Farm, who is even now plotting to attack us and take our farm
away from us! Snowball is to act as his guide when the attack begins. But
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: Marquesan tattooer is extreme; and she would appear to be
clothed in a web of lace, inimitably delicate, exquisite in
pattern, and of a bluish hue that at once contrasts and
harmonises with the warm pigment of the native skin. It
would be hard to find a woman more becomingly adorned than "a
well-tattooed" Marquesan.
Note 6, "THE HORROR OF NIGHT." The Polynesian fear of ghosts
and of the dark has been already referred to. Their life is
beleaguered by the dead.
Note 7, "THE QUIET PASSAGE OF SOULS." So, I am told, the
natives explain the sound of a little wind passing overhead
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