| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: the mother may certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her
lawful occupation of begging; and it is exactly at one year old
that I propose to provide for them in such a manner, as, instead
of being a charge upon their parents, or the parish, or wanting
food and raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall, on the
contrary, contribute to the feeding, and partly to the cloathing
of many thousands.
There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it
will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice
of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent
among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to meet the limited demands of the animals.
After partaking of my evening meal of cheese-like food
and vegetable milk I sought out Sola, whom I found working
by the light of a torch upon some of Tars Tarkas' trappings.
She looked up at my approach, her face lighting with pleasure
and with welcome.
"I am glad you came," she said; "Dejah Thoris sleeps and
I am lonely. Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter;
I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live
my life amongst them, and I often wish that I were a true
green Martian woman, without love and without hope; but I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: more fatal still to England upon that shameful day, when the last
of Elizabeth's heroes shall lay down his head upon the block,
nominally for having believed what all around him believed likewise
till they found it expedient to deny it in order to curry favor
with the crowned cur who betrayed him, really because he alone
dared to make one last protest in behalf of liberty and
Protestantism against the incoming night of tyranny and
superstition. Little thought Amyas, as he devoured the pages of
that manuscript, that he was laying a snare for the life of the man
whom, next to Drake and Grenville, he most admired on earth.
But Don Guzman, on the other hand, seemed to have an instinct that
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