| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: shapes of men and women, of Latin and Saxon, of Jew and Gentile.
These are, perhaps, strong words, but it is difficult to
characterise otherwise the intimacy and the strain of a creative
effort in which mind and will and conscience are engaged to the
full, hour after hour, day after day, away from the world, and to
the exclusion of all that makes life really lovable and gentle--
something for which a material parallel can only be found in the
everlasting sombre stress of the westward winter passage round
Cape Horn. For that too is the wrestling of men with the might
of their Creator, in a great isolation from the world, without
the amenities and consolations of life, a lonely struggle under a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: York as proxy of the duke? which they both affirming, the bishop
then declared it was a lawful marriage."
This unpopular union served to strengthen the gathering storm;
Protests against popery were universally heard; an article in the
marriage settlement, which guaranteed the duchess a public
chapel, was broken; and the duke was advised by Lord Berkshire to
retire into the country, "where he might hunt and pray without
offence to any or disquiet to himself." This counsel he refused
to heed. Until his majesty should command him to the contrary,
he said, he would always attend upon him, and do such service as
he thought his duty and the king's security required of him. His
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: is there to gratify her heart? What are all the splendors you
speak of without affection? I must have her back again. Will
you go with me you go with me, Phoebus, to demand my daughter
of this wicked Pluto?"
"Pray excuse me," replied Phoebus, with an elegant obeisance.
"I certainly wish you success, and regret that my own affairs
are so immediately pressing that I cannot have the pleasure of
attending you. Besides, I am not upon the best of terms with
King Pluto. To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff
would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled
to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know,
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