| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: ly, I thought. "They come to one -- out of the
Silences; one knows not how. It is better not to
ask how! It is better not to question! It is better
to accept! Do you not feel it so?
Sometimes I think that Fothergil Finch is the
only man who has ever understood me.
You see, I am Dual in my personality.
There is the real Ego, and there is the Alter Ego.
And, besides these, I have so many moods which
do not come from either one of my Egos! They
come from my Subliminal Consciousness!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: phalangites. There was no cavalry to get rid of them, except two
hundred Numidians operating against the right squadron of the
Clinabarians. All the rest were hemmed in, and unable to extricate
themselves from the lines. The peril was imminent, and the need of
coming to some resolution urgent.
Spendius ordered attacks to be made simultaneously on both flanks of
the phalanx so as to pass clean through it. But the narrower ranks
glided below the longer ones and recovered their position, and the
phalanx turned upon the Barbarians as terrible in flank as it had just
been in front.
They struck at the staves of the sarissae, but the cavalry in the rear
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: get bitterly abused for my rigid severity; and sometimes he
contrives to elude my vigilance, and sometimes acts in opposition
to my will. But he is now so completely reconciled to my
attendance in general that he is never satisfied when I am not by
his side. I am obliged to be a little stiff with him sometimes, or
he would make a complete slave of me; and I know it would be
unpardonable weakness to give up all other interests for him. I
have the servants to overlook, and my little Arthur to attend to, -
and my own health too, all of which would be entirely neglected
were I to satisfy his exorbitant demands. I do not generally sit
up at night, for I think the nurse who has made it her business is
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
