| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats,
by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions. But it was a victory!
That is why I have remained loyal to Kurtz to the last, and even beyond,
when a long time after I heard once more, not his own voice, but the echo
of his magnificent eloquence thrown to me from a soul as translucently
pure as a cliff of crystal.
"No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I
remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like a passage through
some inconceivable world that had no hope in it and no desire.
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight
of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: indeed afflicted at the prospect of their loss; and her
mortification was the greater because, having received no money
since she came into the kingdom, it was out of her power to make
them compensation for their services.
The thought of being deprived of her people in her present
unhappy condition rendered her so miserable, that she besought
the king to allow some of them to remain; and, likewise, she
employed others to make the same petition on her behalf.
Therefore one of her ladies, the Countess of Penalva, who had
been her attendant since childhood, and who now, because of
weakness of sight and other infirmities, scarce ever left her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: ERYXIAS: Yes.
SOCRATES: The good and gentle, therefore will alone have profit from these
things, supposing at least that they know how to use them. But if so, to
them only will they seem to be wealth. It appears, however, that where a
person is ignorant of riding, and has horses which are useless to him, if
some one teaches him that art, he makes him also richer, for what was
before useless has now become useful to him, and in giving him knowledge he
has also conferred riches upon him.
ERYXIAS: That is the case.
SOCRATES: Yet I dare be sworn that Critias will not be moved a whit by the
argument.
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