| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Stern bearer of the sword and whip,
A master passed in mastership,
He learned, without the spur of need,
To write, to cipher, and to read;
From all that touch on his prone shore
Augments his treasury of lore,
Eager in age as erst in youth
To catch an art, to learn a truth,
To paint on the internal page
A clearer picture of the age.
His age, you say? But ah, not so!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: privileged, except in cases of notorious incorrigibility, to
be plucked from the hands of rude secular justice and tried
by a tribunal of their own. In 1402, a couple of thieves,
both clerks of the University, were condemned to death by the
Provost of Paris. As they were taken to Montfaucon, they
kept crying "high and clearly" for their benefit of clergy,
but were none the less pitilessly hanged and gibbeted.
Indignant Alma Mater interfered before the king; and the
Provost was deprived of all royal offices, and condemned to
return the bodies and erect a great stone cross, on the road
from Paris to the gibbet graven with the effigies of these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: "My dear! How?"
"I don't know!"
He waited.
"I think I want you to help me find out what has made the
darkness of the women. Gray darkness and shadowy trees.
We're all in it, ten million women, young married women with
good prosperous husbands, and business women in linen collars,
and grandmothers that gad out to teas, and wives of under-
paid miners, and farmwives who really like to make butter and
go to church. What is it we want--and need? Will Kennicott
there would say that we need lots of children and hard work.
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