| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: She sat beside him looking at the mountains too. When it became
painful to look any longer, the great size of the view seeming to
enlarge her eyes beyond their natural limit, she looked at the ground;
it pleased her to scrutinise this inch of the soil of South
America so minutely that she noticed every grain of earth and made
it into a world where she was endowed with the supreme power.
She bent a blade of grass, and set an insect on the utmost tassel
of it, and wondered if the insect realised his strange adventure,
and thought how strange it was that she should have bent that tassel
rather than any other of the million tassels.
"You've never told me you name," said Hewet suddenly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: only house where sinners are made welcome, and you were always in
my heart, Gerald, too much in my heart. For, though day after day,
at morn or evensong, I have knelt in God's house, I have never
repented of my sin. How could I repent of my sin when you, my
love, were its fruit! Even now that you are bitter to me I cannot
repent. I do not. You are more to me than innocence. I would
rather be your mother - oh! much rather! - than have been always
pure . . . Oh, don't you see? don't you understand? It is my
dishonour that has made you so dear to me. It is my disgrace that
has bound you so closely to me. It is the price I paid for you -
the price of soul and body - that makes me love you as I do. Oh,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: the face. Your uncle, as you see, was not so much as shaken in
the accident; a man of your humane disposition ought to be
delighted.'
'Then, if that's so,' Morris broke forth, 'how about the body?
You don't mean to insinuate that thing I schemed and sweated for,
and colported with my own hands, was the body of a total
stranger?'
'O no, we can't go as far as that,' said Michael soothingly; 'you
may have met him at the club.'
Morris fell into a chair. 'I would have found it out if it had
come to the house,' he complained. 'And why didn't it? why did it
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