| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: below again, about the neap-tide mark, the region of the corallines
and Algae furnishes food for yet other species who graze on its
watery meadows; and beneath all, only uncovered at low spring-tide,
the zone of the Laminariae (the great tangles and ore-weeds) is
most full of all of every imaginable form of life. So that as we
descend the rocks, we may compare ourselves (likening small things
to great) to those who, descending the Andes, pass in a single day
from the vegetation of the Arctic zone to that of the Tropics. And
here and there, even at half-tide level, deep rock-basins, shaded
from the sun and always full of water, keep up in a higher zone the
vegetation of a lower one, and afford in nature an analogy to those
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: brought round to the side-door. But he listened in vain,
and at last he lost patience. His sister came to him and begged
him to take her home, and he presently went off with her.
Eugenia observed him leaving the house with Lizzie;
in her present mood the fact seemed a contribution to her
irritated conviction that he had several precious qualities.
"Even that mal-elevee little girl," she reflected, "makes him
do what she wishes."
She had been sitting just within one of the long windows that opened upon
the piazza; but very soon after Acton had gone away she got up abruptly,
just when the talkative gentleman from Boston was asking her what she
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: Stand up straighter. Look me in the face.'
He paused, and went on in a gentler tone:
'You are improving. Intellectually there is very little wrong with you.
It is only emotionally that you have failed to make progress. Tell me,
Winston--and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect
a lie--tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?'
'I hate him.'
'You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step.
You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love
him.'
He released Winston with a little push towards the guards.
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