| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: softer, the stream pleasanter in sound, the air milder, the
heart more at peace? Why should I not sink? To dig - why,
after all, it should be easy. To take a mate, too? Love is
of all grades since Jupiter; love fails to none; and
children' - but here he passed his hand suddenly over his
eyes. 'O fool and coward, fool and coward!' he said
bitterly; 'can you forget your fetters? You did not know
that I was fettered, Nance?' he asked, again addressing her.
But Nance was somewhat sore. 'I know you keep talking,' she
said, and, turning half away from him, began to wring out a
sheet across her shoulder. 'I wonder you are not wearied of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: And the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
The flat-nosed she-goats browse the tender brush.
We sing not to deaf ears; no word of ours
But the woods echo it. What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all unworthy of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying? for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or Parnassus stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe. Him
Even the laurels and the tamarisks wept;
For him, outstretched beneath a lonely rock,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: the bones of Winston's palm. At the door Winston looked back, but O'Brien
seemed already to be in process of putting him out of mind. He was waiting
with his hand on the switch that controlled the telescreen. Beyond him
Winston could see the writing-table with its green-shaded lamp and the
speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers. The incident was
closed. Within thirty seconds, it occurred to him, O'Brien would be back
at his interrupted and important work on behalf of the Party.
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Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had
come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the
weakness of a jelly, but its translucency. He felt that if he held up his
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