The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: Round Asian meads within thy fresher-pools,
Cayster, as in eager rivalry,
About their shoulders dash the plenteous spray,
Now duck their head beneath the wave, now run
Into the billows, for sheer idle joy
Of their mad bathing-revel. Then the crow
With full voice, good-for-naught, inviting rain,
Stalks on the dry sand mateless and alone.
Nor e'en the maids, that card their nightly task,
Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock
They see the lamp-oil sputtering with a growth
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: You have no more claim upon me than a door scraper; but the
touching confusion of your mind disarms me from extremities.
Until to-day, I always thought stupidity was funny; I now
know otherwise; and when I look upon your idiot face,
laughter rises within me like a deadly sickness, and the
tears spring up into my eyes as bitter as blood. What should
this portend? I begin to doubt; I am losing faith in
scepticism. Is it possible,' he cried, in a kind of horror
of himself - 'is it conceivable that I believe in right and
wrong? Already I have found myself, with incredulous
surprise, to be the victim of a prejudice of personal honour.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: In comparison the others
Seemed, to one's bewildered fancy,
To have partially succeeded.
Finally my Hiawatha
Tumbled all the tribe together,
('Grouped' is not the right expression),
And, as happy chance would have it
Did at last obtain a picture
Where the faces all succeeded:
Each came out a perfect likeness.
Then they joined and all abused it,
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