| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: discussion of hopes and chances, she was perfectly resolved.--
She believed it would be wiser for her to say and know at once,
all that she meant to say and know. Plain dealing was always best.
She had previously determined how far she would proceed,
on any application of the sort; and it would be safer for both,
to have the judicious law of her own brain laid down with speed.--
She was decided, and thus spoke--
"Harriet, I will not affect to be in doubt of your meaning.
Your resolution, or rather your expectation of never marrying,
results from an idea that the person whom you might prefer,
would be too greatly your superior in situation to think of you.
Emma |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: "Beg pardon, is this not Miss
Muffet's?"
"Go away, you bold bad spider!
Leaving ends of cobweb all over
my nice clean house!"
She bundled the spider out at a
window.
He let himself down the hedge
with a long thin bit of string.
Mrs. Tittlemouse went on her
way to a distant storeroom, to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: labour, than have again and again been made by male hand-workers, whether
as isolated individuals or in their corporate capacity as trade unions.
They have, at least in some certain instances, endeavoured to exclude
women, not merely from new fields of intellectual and social labour, but
even from those ancient fields of textile manufacture and handicraft, which
have through all generations of the past been woman's. The patent and
undeniable fact, that where the male labour movement flourishes the woman
movement also flourishes, rises not from the fact that they are identical,
but that the same healthy and virile condition in a race or society gives
rise to both.
As two streams rising from one fountain-head and running a parallel course
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