| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: was searching, and drove grit into their faces. Through the rifts of
the clouds, stars, faint and brilliant, appeared. Maskull saw no
familiar constellations. He wondered if the sun of earth was
visible, and if so which one it was.
They came to the head of a rough staircase, leading down the
cliffside. It resembled the one by which he had come up; but this
descended to the Wombflash Forest.
"That is your path '," said Catice, "and I shall not come any
farther."
Maskull detained him. "Say just this, before we part company - why
does pleasure appear so shameful to us?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: raised her little finger, I suppose, she might have married any one out of
twenty of them.
Then I came. I do not think I was prettier; I do not think I was so pretty
as she was. I was certainly not as handsome. But I was vital, and I was
new, and she was old--they all forsook her and followed me. They
worshipped me. It was to my door that the flowers came; it was I had
twenty horses offered me when I could only ride one; it was for me they
waited at street corners; it was what I said and did that they talked of.
Partly I liked it. I had lived alone all my life; no one ever had told me
I was beautiful and a woman. I believed them. I did not know it was
simply a fashion, which one man had set and the rest followed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Enceladus, whence with imperious sway
Bright fire breaks out by night, black smoke by day.
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About the hill lay other islands small,
Where other rocks, crags, cliffs, and mountains stood,
The Isles Fortunate these elder time did call,
To which high Heaven they reigned so kind and good,
And of his blessings rich so liberal,
That without tillage earth gives corn for food,
And grapes that swell with sweet and precious wine
There without pruning yields the fertile vine.
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