| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: of an intellectual ram. After a few remarks of a general nature
had passed, they were discovering that they knew some of the same people,
as indeed had been obvious from their appearance directly they saw each other.
"Ah yes, old Truefit," said Mr. Elliot. "He has a son at Oxford.
I've often stayed with them. It's a lovely old Jacobean house.
Some exquisite Greuzes--one or two Dutch pictures which the old
boy kept in the cellars. Then there were stacks upon stacks
of prints. Oh, the dirt in that house! He was a miser, you know.
The boy married a daughter of Lord Pinwells. I know them too.
The collecting mania tends to run in families. This chap collects
buckles--men's shoe-buckles they must be, in use between the years
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: of it, for he could not hold his eyes steady, and--and I
certainly did not fall down at his feet. But then I am not a
man, being of the Free People."
"Umm!" said Bagheera deep in his furry throat. "Does the Tiger
know his Night?"
"Never till the Jackal of the Moon stands clear of the evening
mist. Sometimes it falls in the dry summer and sometimes in the
wet rains--this one Night of the Tiger. But for the First of
the Tigers, this would never have been, nor would any of us
have known fear."
The deer grunted sorrowfully and Bagheera's lips curled in a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: argue about God; it relates. It relates without any of those
wrappings of awe and reverence that fold so necessarily about
imposture, it relates as one tells of a friend and his assistance,
of a happy adventure, of a beautiful thing found and picked up by
the wayside.
So far as its psychological phases go the new account of personal
salvation tallies very closely with the account of "conversion" as
it is given by other religions. It has little to tell that is not
already familiar to the reader of William James's "Varieties of
Religious Experience." It describes an initial state of distress
with the aimlessness and cruelties of life, and particularly with
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