| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: pounds a year, looked upon with doubt by respectable elders,
but for all that the best talker, the best letter-writer, the
most famous lover and confidant, the laureate poet, and the
only man who wore his hair tied in the parish. He says he
had then as high a notion of himself as ever after; and I can
well believe it. Among the youth he walked FACILE PRINCEPS,
an apparent god; and even if, from time to time, the Reverend
Mr. Auld should swoop upon him with the thunders of the
Church, and, in company with seven others, Rab the Ranter
must figure some fine Sunday on the stool of repentance,
would there not be a sort of glory, an infernal apotheosis,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: build up the white fires of ecstasy to submerge pain for ever,
that will overcome death. In Him the spirit of creation had
become incarnate, had joined itself to men, summoning men to Him,
having need of them, having need of them, having need of their
service, even as great kings and generals and leaders need and
use men. For a moment, for an endless age, the bishop bowed
himself in the being and glory of God, felI the glow of the
divine courage and confidence in his marrow, felt himself one
with God.
For a timeless interval....
Never had the bishop had so intense a sense of reality. It
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: was reached. It was just as well for them, for the mere
attempt to stand upright upon our planet would have broken
every bone in their bodies.
And while I am engaged in this description, I may add
in this place certain further details which, although they
were not all evident to us at the time, will enable the
reader who is unacquainted with them to form a clearer
picture of these offensive creatures.
In three other points their physiology differed strangely
from ours. Their organisms did not sleep, any more than the
heart of man sleeps. Since they had no extensive muscular
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