| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: were flying and drumming over the forecastle; the companion of
Steerage No. 1 had to be closed, and the door of communication
through the second cabin thrown open. Either from the convenience of
the opportunity, or because we had already a number of acquaintances
in that part of the ship, Mr. Jones and I paid it a late visit.
Steerage No. 1 is shaped like an isosceles triangle, the sides
opposite the equal angles bulging outward with the contour of the
ship. It is lined with eight pens of sixteen bunks apiece, four
bunks below and four above on either side. At night the place is lit
with two lanterns, one to each table. As the steamer beat on her way
among the rough billows, the light passed through violent phases of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: hand the doors of his own sepulchre.
I shall now extract three passages from my diary at Kalawao.
A. 'Damien is dead and already somewhat ungratefully
remembered in the field of his labours and sufferings. "He
was a good man, but very officious," says one. Another tells
me he had fallen (as other priests so easily do) into
something of the ways and habits of thought of a Kanaka; but
he had the wit to recognise the fact, and the good sense to
laugh at' [over] 'it. A plain man it seems he was; I cannot
find he was a popular.'
B. 'After Ragsdale's death' [Ragsdale was a famous Luna, or
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: ================================================================
MARIA
or
The Wrongs of Woman
by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
(1759-1797)
After the edition of 1798
CONTENTS
Preface by William S. Godwin
Author's Preface
Maria
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