| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: wish it had been she who had recovered! Did you see
the exquisite old lace she sent me?"
He had known that the moment must come sooner
or later, but he had somewhat imagined that by force
of willing he might hold it at bay.
"Yes--I--no: yes, it was beautiful," he said, looking
at her blindly, and wondering if, whenever he heard
those two syllables, all his carefully built-up world
would tumble about him like a house of cards.
"Aren't you tired? It will be good to have some tea
when we arrive--I'm sure the aunts have got everything
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: The swift grey tenebrous shape he knew,
Like a thing of smoke it crossed the sky,
The witch! he said. And he heard a cry,
And another came, and another came,
And one, grown duskily red with blood,
Floated an instant across the moon,
Hung like a dull fantastic flame . . .
The earth has veins: they throb to-night,
The earth swells warm beneath my feet,
The tips of the trees grow red and bright,
The leaves are swollen, I feel them beat,
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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: and suchlike great still places urgent with beauty, into which men
and women may go to rest from the clamour of the day's confusions; I
do not see why men should not make great shrines and pictures
expressing their sense of divine things, and why they should not
combine in such enterprises rather than work to fill heterogeneous
and chaotic art galleries. A wave of religious revival and
religious clarification, such as I foresee, will most certainly
bring with it a great revival of art, religious art, music, songs,
and writings of all sorts, drama, the making of shrines, praying
places, tempies and retreats, the creation of pictures and
sculptures. It is not necessary to have priestcraft and an
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