| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: expand an umbrella with the other.
Thereat the Angel of Compassion did most shamelessly and wickedly
laugh.
The City of Political Distinction
JAMRACH the Rich, being anxious to reach the City of Political
Distinction before nightfall, arrived at a fork of the road and was
undecided which branch to follow; so he consulted a Wise-Looking
Person who sat by the wayside.
"Take THAT road," said the Wise-Looking Person, pointing it out;
"it is known as the Political Highway."
"Thank you," said Jamrach, and was about to proceed.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled,
With pungent sauces, multiply variety
In a wilderness of mirrors. What will the spider do,
Suspend its operations, will the weevil
Delay? De Bailhache, Fresca, Mrs. Cammel, whirled
Beyond the circuit of the shuddering Bear
In fractured atoms. Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White feathers in the snow, the Gulf claims,
And an old man driven by the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Hureweibler, or, as we would say vernacularly, Captain of the
Queans. True it is, they were persons not to be named as
parallel to your ladyship, being such QUAE QUAESTUM CORPORIBUS
FACIEBANT, as we said of Jean Drochiels at Mareschal-College; the
same whom the French term CURTISANNES, and we in Scottish--"
"The lady will spare you the trouble of further exposition,
Captain Dalgetty," said his host, somewhat sternly; to which the
clergyman added, "that such discourse better befitted a watch-
tower guarded by profane soldiery than the board of an honourable
person, and the presence of a lady of quality."
"Craving your pardon, Dominie, or Doctor, AUT QUOCUNQUE ALIO
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