| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from
his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious,
and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny;
and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed
the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry
and audible--"What a piece of work here is about nothing:
I am quite ashamed of you, Fanny, to make such a difficulty
of obliging your cousins in a trifle of this sort--so kind
as they are to you! Take the part with a good grace,
and let us hear no more of the matter, I entreat."
"Do not urge her, madam," said Edmund. "It is not fair to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 1. I, As I lay within the womb, considered all generations
of these
Gods in order.
A hundred iron fortresses confined me but forth I flew with
rapid
speed a Falcon.
2 Not at his own free pleasure did he bear me: he conquered
with his
strength and manly courage.
Straightway the Bold One left the fiends behind him and passed
the
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: gifted by constitution with the power so to present them, and
having some motive so to do, I felt an interest in my theory which,
in its way, was rather philosophical than superstitious. And I can
sincerely say that I was in as tranquil a temper for observation as
any practical experimentalist could be in awaiting the effects of
some rare, though perhaps perilous, chemical combination. Of
course, the more I kept my mind detached from fancy, the more the
temper fitted for observation would be obtained; and I therefore
riveted eye and thought on the strong daylight sense in the page of
my Macaulay.
I now became aware that something interposed between the page and
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