| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: me again that night. He said that Jim's illness had decided him;
that any of us might take sick and die, shut in that contaminated
atmosphere, and that if he did he wanted it all settled. And
whether I took him or not he wanted me to remember him kindly if
anything happened. I really hated to refuse him--he was in such
deadly earnest. But it was quite unnecessary for him to have
blamed his refusal, as he did, on Mr. Harbison. I am sure I had
refused him plenty of times before I had ever heard of the man.
Yes, it was just after he proposed to me that Flannigan came to
the door and called Mr. Harbison out into the hall.
Flannigan--like most of the people in the house--always went to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: colonel in a low voice,--
"Take out, adroitly, from my right hand pocket some lumps of sugar you
will feel there. Show them to her, and she will come to us. I will
renounce in your favor my sole means of giving her pleasure. With
sugar, which she passionately loves, you will accustom her to approach
you, and to know you again."
"When she was a woman," said Philippe, sadly, "she had no taste for
sweet things."
When the colonel showed her the lump of sugar, holding it between the
thumb and forefinger of his right hand, she again uttered her little
wild cry, and sprang toward him; then she stopped, struggling against
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: grown and sexually mature Man--a magic which it, too,
has never lost.
[1] Nor is it difficult to see how out of the discreet use of
such words and images, combined with elementary forms like the
square, the triangle and the circle, and elementary numbers like
3, 4, 5, etc., quite a science, so to speak, of Magic arose.
There is ample evidence that one of the very earliest objects
of human worship was the Earth itself, conceived of
as the fertile Mother of all things. Gaia or Ge (the earth)
had temples and altars in almost all the cities of Greece.
Rhea or Cybele, sprung from the Earth, was "mother of
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