| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: time and chance gave me the opportunity I sought.
So I saw my way quite clearly; and when the fellow below
called me, reminding me rudely that I must be going, and
that it was six o'clock, I was ready with my answer. I
shouted sulkily that I was coming, and, after a decent
delay, I took up my saddle and bags and went down.
Viewed by the light of a cold morning, the inn-room
looked more smoky, more grimy, more wretched than when I
had last seen it. The goodwife was not visible. The
fire was not lighted. No provision, not so much as a
stirrup-cup or bowl of porridge cheered the heart.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: of the points which follow.
We are not concerned now with the ultimate effects of
the 'Fall' of Man or with the present-day fulfilment of
the Eden-curse. What we want to understand is how the
'Fall' into self-consciousness led to that great panorama
of Ritual and Religion which we have very briefly described
and summarized in the preceding chapters of
this book. We want for the present to fix our attention
on the COMMENCEMENT of that process by which man lapsed
away from his living community with Nature and his
fellows into the desert of discord and toil, while the angels
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: bramble through the great wood, over moor and heath, as fast as he could go.
"Ddsa! Ddsa!" was heard in the sky. It was just as if somebody was sneezing.
"These are my old northern-lights," said the Reindeer, "look how they gleam!
And on he now sped still quicker--day and night on he went: the loaves were
consumed, and the ham too; and now they were in Lapland.
SIXTH STORY. The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman
Suddenly they stopped before a little house, which looked very miserable. The
roof reached to the ground; and the door was so low, that the family were
obliged to creep upon their stomachs when they went in or out. Nobody was at
home except an old Lapland woman, who was dressing fish by the light of an oil
lamp. And the Reindeer told her the whole of Gerda's history, but first of all
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