| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: wrong which are diffused all over the world; at another they
refer their decision to a few very special notions which belong
exclusively to some particular age and country. It often happens
that these two rules differ; they sometimes conflict: but they
are never either entirely identified or entirely annulled by one
another. Honor, at the periods of its greatest power, sways the
will more than the belief of men; and even whilst they yield
without hesitation and without a murmur to its dictates, they
feel notwithstanding, by a dim but mighty instinct, the existence
of a more general, more ancient, and more holy law, which they
sometimes disobey although they cease not to acknowledge it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: flow through those fine sheets of sound in which their souls could
vibrate without obstacle.
Many loves proceed through opposition; through struggles and
reconciliations, the vulgar struggle of mind and matter. But the first
wing-beat of true love sends it far beyond such struggles. Where all
is of the same essence, two natures are no longer to be distinguished;
like genius in its highest expression, such love can sustain itself in
the brightest light; it grows beneath the light, it needs no shade to
bring it into relief. Gabrielle, because she was a woman, Etienne,
because he had suffered much and meditated much, passed quickly
through the regions occupied by common passions and went beyond it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: can do nothing at all, for all that comes
from him has a tincture of the red, and
it only varies and alters according to the
abundance of water which he takes, and
the strength of the white-wine vinegar, in
which all the glasses are washed.
CHAPTER TEN
DEFIERS OF POISONOUS REPTILES: THARDO;
MRS. LEARN, DEALER IN RATTLESNAKES.
--SIR ARTHUR THURLOW CUNYNGHAME
ON ANTIDOTES FOR SNAKE-BITE.--JACK
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