| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: both the Roach and the Dace or Dare; for they be much of a kind, in
manner of feeding, cunning, goodness, and usually in size. And
therefore take this general direction, for some other baits which may
concern you to take notice of: they will bite almost at any fly, but
especially at ant-flies; concerning which take this direction, for it is
very good.
Take the blackish ant-fly out of the mole-hill or ant-hill, in which place
you shall find them in the month of June; or if that be too early in the
year, then, doubtless, you may find them in July, August, and most of
September. Gather them alive, with both their wings: and then put them
into a glass that will hold a quart or a pottle; but first put into the glass a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: Some persons, for instance, never are, and possibly never under
any circumstances could be, converted. Religious ideas cannot
become the centre of their spiritual energy. They may be
excellent persons, servants of God in practical ways, but they
are not children of his kingdom. They are either incapable of
imagining the invisible; or else, in the language of devotion,
they are life-long subjects of "barrenness" and "dryness."
Such inaptitude for religious faith may in some cases be
intellectual in its origin. Their religious faculties may be
checked in their natural tendency to expand, by beliefs about the
world that are inhibitive, the pessimistic and materialistic
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: three women in it?" he growled. "But I shall tell them about
Dain the trader, and there will be talk enough."
He turned and went away, increasing his pace as soon as he was
outside Almayer's compound.
Babalatchi looked after him till he disappeared behind the
bushes. "Have I done well, Mem Putih?" he asked, humbly
addressing Nina.
"You have," answered Nina. "The ring you may keep yourself."
Babalatchi touched his lips and forehead, and scrambled to his
feet. He looked at Nina, as if expecting her to say something
more, but Nina turned towards the house and went up the steps,
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