| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: calcanthus, the rattles whizzing on every side like spinning-
wheels, and the combined hiss or buzz rising louder and
angrier at any sudden movement; but I was never in the least
impressed, nor ever attacked. It was only towards the end of
our stay, that a man down at Calistoga, who was expatiating
on the terrifying nature of the sound, gave me at last a very
good imitation; and it burst on me at once that we dwelt in
the very metropolis of deadly snakes, and that the rattle was
simply the commonest noise in Silverado. Immediately on our
return, we attacked the Hansons on the subject. They had
formerly assured us that our canyon was favoured, like
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Of God, to know enough to be alive.
VII
There is one battle-field whereon we fall
Triumphant and unconquered; but, alas!
We are too fleshly fearful of ourselves
To fight there till our days are whirled and blurred
By sorrow, and the ministering wheels
Of anguish take us eastward, where the clouds
Of human gloom are lost against the gleam
That shines on Thought's impenetrable mail.
VIII
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: are too large? Or too red, at least, for their size?
They catch the eye too much -- they take away from
the effect. Before he sings here again I will have
Mrs. Easeley bob them off a little."
HERMIONE ON SUPERFICIALITY
AREN'T you just crazy about the Moral Uplift?
It's coming into every department of life
now and one just simply HAS to keep up with it in
order to talk intelligently these days.
Not that one can talk too freely about it in mixed
company, you know.
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