| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: of the shouting and running, the beating and shooting. I'm sick of
all the confusions of life's experience, which tells only of one
need amidst an endless multitude of distresses. I've seen my fill
of wars and disputes and struggles. I see now how a man may grow
weary at last of life and its disorders, its unreal exacting
disorders, its blunders and its remorse. No! I want to begin upon
the realities I have made for myself. For they are the realities.
I want to go now to some quiet corner where I can polish what I have
learnt, sort out my accumulations, be undisturbed by these
transitory symptomatic things. . . .
"What was that boy saying? They are burning the STAR office. . . .
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: words,--"Creo en un Dios, padre todopoderoso, Criador de cielo y
de la tierra,"--and paused and thought. Creator of Heaven and
Earth? "Madrecita Carmen," she asked,--"quien entonces hizo el
mar?" (who then made the sea?).
--"Dios, mi querida," answered Carmen.--"God, my darling....
All things were made by Him" ( todas las cosas fueron hechas por
El).
Even the wicked Sea! And He had said unto it: "Thus far, and no
farther." ... Was that why it had not overtaken and devoured
her when she ran back in fear from the sudden reaching out of its
waves? Thus far....? But there were times when it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: easily overlook the palisade and the village street below.
Zu-tag squatted upon a great branch close to the bole of
the tree and by loosening the girl's arms from about his neck,
indicated that she was to find a footing for herself and when
she had done so, he turned toward her and pointed repeatedly
at the open doorway of a hut upon the opposite side of the
street below them. By various gestures he seemed to be try-
ing to explain something to her and at last she caught at the
germ of his idea -- that her white man was a prisoner there.
Beneath them was the roof of a hut onto which she saw that
she could easily drop, but what she could do after she had
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