| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: A disused quarry, furnished with a seat
Sacred to pipes and meditation meet
For such a sunny and retired nook.
There in the clear, warm mornings many a book
Has vied with the fair prospect of the hills
That, vale on vale, rough brae on brae, upfills
Halfway to the zenith all the vacant sky
To keep my loose attention. . . .
Horace has sat with me whole mornings through:
And Montaigne gossiped, fairly false and true;
And chattering Pepys, and a few beside
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: but not of us! This at least is true, that we, ourselves, are seldom
deceived by them; the sheep generally recognise the wolf however carefully
fitted the sheepskin under which he hides, though the onlookers may not;
and though not always be able to drive him from the flock! The outer world
may be misled; we, who stand shoulder to shoulder with them, know them;
they are not many; neither are they new. They are one of the oldest
survivals, and among the most primitive relics in the race. They are as
old as Loki among the gods, as Lucifer among the Sons of the Morning, as
the serpent in the Garden of Eden, as pain and dislocation in the web of
human life.
Such women are as old as that first primitive woman who, when she went with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: This was owing to our position between the store and the bar - the
SANS SOUCI, as the last was called. Mr. Rick was not only Messrs.
Wightman's manager, but consular agent for the States; Mrs. Rick
was the only white woman on the island, and one of the only two in
the archipelago; their house besides, with its cool verandahs, its
bookshelves, its comfortable furniture, could not be rivalled
nearer than Jaluit or Honolulu. Every one called in consequence,
save such as might be prosecuting a South Sea quarrel, hingeing on
the price of copra and the odd cent, or perhaps a difference about
poultry. Even these, if they did not appear upon the north, would
be presently visible to the southward, the SANS SOUCI drawing them
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