| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: scrambled back into the sphere with these things. "What have you got? " I
said.
I took the book from his hand and read, "The Works of William
Shakespeare".
He coloured slightly. "My education has been so purely scientific -" he
said apologetically.
"Never read him? "
"Never."
"He knew a little, you know - in an irregular sort of way."
"Precisely what I am told," said Cavor.
I assisted him to screw in the glass cover of the manhole, and then he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The close intercourse of the voyage had given him for the time
almost a surfeit of the hot-house atmosphere of Emilia's love.
The first contact of Hope's cool, smooth fingers, the soft
light of her clear eyes, the breezy grace of her motions, the
rose-odors that clung around her, brought back all his early
passion. Apart from this voluptuousness of the heart into which
he had fallen, Malbone's was a simple and unspoiled nature; he
had no vices, and had always won popularity too easily to be
obliged to stoop for it; so all that was noblest in him paid
allegiance to Hope. From the moment they again met, his
wayward heart reverted to her. He had been in a dream, he said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: an advantage for a man to live on scanty, unwholesome food, to wear
ragged, unwholesome clothes, to sleep in horrid, unwholesome
dwellings, and a disadvantage for a man to live under healthy,
pleasant, and decent conditions. Such a view would have been wrong
there and then, and would, of course, be still more wrong now and
in England; for as man moves northward the material necessities of
life become of more vital importance, and our society is infinitely
more complex, and displays far greater extremes of luxury and
pauperism than any society of the antique world. What Jesus meant,
was this. He said to man, 'You have a wonderful personality.
Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies
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