| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: "I have no affection for him. I had once. He chose to extinguish
it. He can go to the devil; and please observe that I don't permit
you to interfere."
"But if he confesses that he has done wrong... "
"He confesses nothing of the kind. He comes here to argue with me
about these infernal Rights of Man. He proclaims himself
unrepentant. He announces himself with pride to have been, as all
Brittany says, the scoundrel who hid himself under the sobriquet
of Omnes Omnibus. Is that to be condoned?"
She turned to look at Andre across the wide space that now separated
them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: An apple and a slice of cake;"--
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.
XIV
Where Go the Boats?
Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: lost the steel towers, the flying ships,
the power wires, all the things they had
not created and could never keep. Perhaps,
later, some men had been born with the
mind and the courage to recover these
things which were lost; perhaps these men
came before the Councils of Scholars.
They were answered as I have been answered--
and for the same reasons.
But I still wonder how it was possible,
in those graceless years of transition,
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