| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: This etext was prepared by Alan. R. Light (alight@vnet.net --
formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
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[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: maintained itself as a kind of symbol of the success that, up to
this time, had attended something or other--she couldn't have said
what--that she humoured herself with calling, without words, her
relation with him.
CHAPTER XI
She would have admitted indeed that it consisted of little more
than the fact that his absences, however frequent and however long,
always ended with his turning up again. It was nobody's business
in the world but her own if that fact continued to be enough for
her. It was of course not enough just in itself; what it had taken
on to make it so was the extraordinary possession of the elements
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: her heart. "Holy Virgin, pity me, a poor heart-broken child!"
"Thou,--dost thou pray?" cried Giovanni, still with the same
fiendish scorn. "Thy very prayers, as they come from thy lips,
taint the atmosphere with death. Yes, yes; let us pray! Let us to
church and dip our fingers in the holy water at the portal! They
that come after us will perish as by a pestilence! Let us sign
crosses in the air! It will be scattering curses abroad in the
likeness of holy symbols!"
"Giovanni," said Beatrice, calmly, for her grief was beyond
passion, "why dost thou join thyself with me thus in those
terrible words? I, it is true, am the horrible thing thou namest
Mosses From An Old Manse |
