| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: "These trees get on one's nerves--it's all so crazy.
God's undoubtedly mad. What sane person could have conceived
a wilderness like this, and peopled it with apes and alligators?
I should go mad if I lived here--raving mad."
Terence attempted to answer him, but Mrs. Ambrose replied instead.
She bade him look at the way things massed themselves--look at
the amazing colours, look at the shapes of the trees. She seemed
to be protecting Terence from the approach of the others.
"Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued,
"the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely
the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by
every one, and by the princess herself. But how girls were to be
married, and how parents were to marry them, no one knew. Every
one with whom the princess had chanced to discuss the matter said
the same thing: "Mercy on us, it's high time in our day to cast
off all that old-fashioned business. It's the houng people have
to marry; nad not heir parents; and so we ought to leave the
young people to arrange it as they choose." It was very easy for
any one to say that who had no daughters, but the princess
realized that in the process of getting to know each other, her
daughter might fall in love, and fall in love with some one who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: estate, I think. The new creature calls it Niagara Falls--why,
I am sure I do not know. Says it looks like Niagara Falls. That
is not a reason; it is mere waywardness and imbecility. I get no
chance to name anything myself. The new creature names everything
that comes along, before I can get in a protest. And always that
same pretext is offered--it looks like the thing. There is the
dodo, for instance. Says the moment one looks at it one sees at
a glance that it "looks like a dodo." It will have to keep that
name, no doubt. It wearies me to fret about it, and it does no
good, anyway. Dodo! It looks no more like a dodo than I do.
Wednesday
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