| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: Absorbed by her music she accepted her lot very complacently,
blazing into indignation perhaps once a fortnight, and subsiding
as she subsided now. Inextricably mixed in dreamy confusion,
her mind seemed to enter into communion, to be delightfully expanded
and combined with the spirit of the whitish boards on deck,
with the spirit of the sea, with the spirit of Beethoven Op.
112, even with the spirit of poor William Cowper there at Olney.
Like a ball of thistledown it kissed the sea, rose, kissed it again,
and thus rising and kissing passed finally out of sight. The rising
and falling of the ball of thistledown was represented by the sudden
droop forward of her own head, and when it passed out of sight she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: devil, and you with him! - and you with him!'
'And yet, my lord,' said Mr. Archer, 'these good people will
have as keen a sense of loss as you or I; keener, perhaps,
since they have done nothing to deserve it.'
'Deserve it?' cried the peer. 'What? What? If a rascally
highwayman comes up to me with a confounded pistol, do you
say that I've deserved it? How often am I to tell you, sir,
that I was cheated - that I was cheated?'
'You are happy in the belief,' returned Mr. Archer gravely.
'Archer, you would be the death of me!' exclaimed his
lordship. 'You know you're drunk; you know it, sir; and yet
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Through half open lids she saw the sunlight filtering
through the leafy canopy above her--she wondered at the
realism of her dream; full consciousness returned and
with it the conviction that she was in truth being held
close by strong arms against a bosom that throbbed
to the beating of a real heart.
With a sudden start she opened her eyes wide to look up
into the hideous face of a giant ourang outang.
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"I AM COMING!"
The morning following the capture of Virginia Maxon
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