| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: enviable adventure. The three stood side by side, not looking at
him, but with their ears directed towards him, judging him by his
unfamiliar steps. They stood close together like men a little
afraid, and he could see their eyelids closed and sunken, as though
the very balls beneath had shrunk away. There was an expression
near awe on their faces.
"A man," one said, in hardly recognisable Spanish. "A man it
is--a man or a spirit--coming down from the rocks."
But Nunez advanced with the confident steps of a youth who
enters upon life. All the old stories of the lost valley and the
Country of the Blind had come back to his mind, and through his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: them, it were better for them;-but God is forgiving, merciful.
O ye who believe! if there come to you a sinner with an information,
then discriminate, lest ye fall upon a people in ignorance and on
the morrow repent of what ye have done.
And know that among you is the Apostle of God; if he should obey you
in many a matter ye would commit a sin; God has made faith beloved
by you, and has made it seemly in your hearts, and has made
misbelief and iniquity and rebellion hateful to you.-These are the
rightly directed-grace from God and favour! and God is knowing, wise.
And if the two parties of the believers quarrel, then make peace
between them; and if one of the twain outrages the other, then fight
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare
buildings for the better housing of the lower orders. But these
things merely produce health, they do not produce beauty. For
this, Art is required, and the true disciples of the great artist
are not his studio-imitators, but those who become like his works
of art, be they plastic as in Greek days, or pictorial as in modern
times; in a word, Life is Art's best, Art's only pupil.
As it is with the visible arts, so it is with literature. The most
obvious and the vulgarest form in which this is shown is in the
case of the silly boys who, after reading the adventures of Jack
Sheppard or Dick Turpin, pillage the stalls of unfortunate apple-
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