| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: ploughed after each other through Silurian slime, and that still it forms
as ever the warp on which in the loom of human life the web is woven, and
runs as a thread never absent through every design and pattern which
constitutes the individual existence on earth, it appears not merely as
ineradicable; but it is inconceivable to suppose that that attraction of
sex towards sex, which, with hunger and thirst, lie, as the triune
instincts, at the base of animal life on earth, should ever be exterminable
by the comparatively superficial changes resulting from the performance of
this or that form of labour, or the little more or less of knowledge in one
direction or another.
That the female who drives steam-driven looms, producing scores of yards of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: to say he gave a pretty sick view of the dear departed's prospects,
and seemed to have his own ideas of hell. I had it out with him
afterwards, told him he had scamped his duty, and what he had ought
to have done was to up like a man and tell the Kanakas plainly Case
was damned, and a good riddance; but I never could get him to see
it my way. Then they made me a litter of poles and carried me down
to the station. Mr. Tarleton set my leg, and made a regular
missionary splice of it, so that I limp to this day. That done, he
took down my evidence, and Uma's, and Maea's, wrote it all out
fine, and had us sign it; and then he got the chiefs and marched
over to Papa Randall's to seize Case's papers.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: that this sinking is caused by an uncommon specific gravity in the
fish so sinking, consequent upon this absence of buoyant matter in
him. But it is not so. For young whales, in the highest health, and
swelling with noble aspirations, prematurely cut off in the warm
flush and May of life, with all their panting lard about them; even
these brawny, buoyant heroes do sometimes sink.
Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this
accident than any other species. Where one of that sort go down,
twenty Right Whales do. This difference in the species is no doubt
imputable in no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the
Right Whale; his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a
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