| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: living tongue WHERE has one sense, WHEREAS another. In the
HEATHSLAYINGS STORY, p. 241, line 13, it bears one of its ordinary
senses. Elsewhere and usually through the two volumes, which is
all that has yet reached me of this entrancing publication, WHEREAS
is made to figure for WHERE.
For the love of God, my dear and honoured Morris, use WHERE, and
let us know WHEREAS we are, wherefore our gratitude shall grow,
whereby you shall be the more honoured wherever men love clear
language, whereas now, although we honour, we are troubled.
Whereunder, please find inscribed to this very impudent but yet
very anxious document, the name of one of the most distant but not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: WARWICK.
An office for the devil, not for man.
KING EDWARD.
That devil's office must thou do for me,
Or break thy oath, or cancel all the bonds
Of love and duty twixt thy self and me;
And therefore, Warwick, if thou art thy self,
The Lord and master of thy word and oath,
Go to thy daughter; and in my behalf
Command her, woo her, win her any ways,
To be my mistress and my secret love.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: which I lived, outside the hamlet of Saranac. It was winter;
the night was very dark; the air extraordinary clear and
cold, and sweet with the purity of forests. From a good way
below, the river was to be heard contending with ice and
boulders: a few lights appeared, scattered unevenly among
the darkness, but so far away as not to lessen the sense of
isolation. For the making of a story here were fine
conditions. I was besides moved with the spirit of
emulation, for I had just finished my third or fourth perusal
of THE PHANTOM SHIP. 'Come,' said I to my engine, 'let us
make a tale, a story of many years and countries, of the sea
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