| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: greased rail, wheel, and pulley, I ran into the arms of four
eviscerated carcasses, all pure white and of a human aspect,
pushed by a man clad in vehement red. When I leaped aside, the
floor was slippery under me. Also there was a flavor of
farm-yard in my nostrils and the shouting of a multitude in my
ears. But there was no joy in that shouting. Twelve men stood
in two lines six a side. Between them and overhead ran the
railway of death that had nearly shunted me through the window.
Each man carried a knife, the sleeves of his shirt were cut off
at the elbows, and from bosom to heel he was blood-red.
Beyond this perspective was a column of steam, and beyond that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: necessary forms of consciousness, glimpses a dance of atoms, of
whirls in the ether. Some day in the endless future there may be a
knowledge, an understanding of relationship, a power and courage
that will pierce into those black wrappings. To that it may be our
God, the Captain of Mankind will take us.
That now is a mere speculation. The veil of the unknown is set with
the stars; its outer texture is ether and atom and crystal. The
Veiled Being, enigmatical and incomprehensible, broods over the
mirror upon which the busy shapes of life are moving. It is as if
it waited in a great stillness. Our lives do not deal with it, and
cannot deal with it. It may be that they may never be able to deal
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: "How delightful that will be!" cried Isabella,
turning round. "My dearest Catherine, I quite envy you;
but I am afraid, brother, you will not have room for
a third."
"A third indeed! No, no; I did not come to Bath
to drive my sisters about; that would be a good joke,
faith! Morland must take care of you."
This brought on a dialogue of civilities between
the other two; but Catherine heard neither the particulars
nor the result. Her companion's discourse now sunk from
its hitherto animated pitch to nothing more than a short
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