| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: The Lycosa is equally indifferent. I take a hair-pencil and sweep
the living burden from one of my Spiders, making it fall close to
another covered with her little ones. The evicted youngsters
scamper about, find the new mother's legs outspread, nimbly clamber
up these and mount on the back of the obliging creature, who
quietly lets them have their way.
They slip in among the others, or, when the layer is too thick,
push to the front and pass from the abdomen to the thorax and even
to the head, though leaving the region of the eyes uncovered. It
does not do to blind the bearer: the common safety demands that.
They know this and respect the lenses of the eyes, however populous
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: of the great fire, to allude casually to the raising of the
entire city so many feet above the level of the lake which it
faces, and generally to grovel before the golden calf. But you,
who are desperately poor, and therefore by these standards of no
ac-count, know things, will understand when I write that they
have managed to get a million of men together on flat land, and
that the bulk of these men together appear to be lower than
Mahajans and not so companionable as a Punjabi Jat after harvest.
But I don't think it was the blind hurry of the people, their
argot, and their grand ignorance of things beyond their immediate
interests that displeased me so much as a study of the daily
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: I shall be much interested to see your criticisms; you might
perhaps send them to me. I believe you know that is not dangerous;
one folly I have not - I am not touchy under criticism.
Lloyd and my wife both beg to be remembered; and Lloyd sends as a
present a work of his own. I hope you feel flattered; for this is
SIMPLY THE FIRST TIME HE HAS EVER GIVEN ONE AWAY. I have to buy my
own works, I can tell you. - Yours very sincerely,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO W. E. HENLEY
[CHALET AM STEIN, DAVOS, APRIL 1882.]
MY DEAR HENLEY, - I hope and hope for a long letter - soon I hope
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