| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: the pair of them, perfectly matched, warm and golden in the sunshine, their
spring-coats a sheen of high-lights shot through with color-flashes that
glowed like fiery jewels. She recognized, almost with a shock, that one of
them was hers, Dolly, the companion of her girlhood and womanhood, on whose
neck she had sobbed her sorrows and sung her joys. A moistness welled into her
eyes at the sight, and she came back from the remoteness of her mood, quick
with passion and sorrow, to be part of the world again.
The man sank forward from the hips, relaxing entirely, and with a groan
dropped his head on her knee. She leaned over him and pressed her lips softly
and lingeringly to his hair.
"Come, let us go," she said, almost in a whisper.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: one, some more of the other. And there are also some in which the
two powers neutralize each other by equality of effect.
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Specialism consists in seeing the things of the material universe
and the things of the spiritual universe in all their
ramifications original and causative. The greatest human geniuses
are those who started from the darkness of Abstraction to attain
to the light of Specialism. (Specialism, /species/, sight;
speculation, or seeing everything, and all at once; /Speculum/, a
mirror or means of apprehending a thing by seeing the whole of
it.) Jesus had the gift of Specialism; He saw each fact in its
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Then slip I from her bum, downe topples she,
And tailour cries, and fals into a coffe.
And then the whole quire hold their hips, and loffe,
And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and sweare,
A merrier houre was neuer wasted there.
But roome Fairy, heere comes Oberon
Fair. And heere my Mistris:
Would that he were gone.
Enter the King of Fairies at one doore with his traine, and the
Queene at
another with hers.
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