| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Graham to his proper place in literary history, but rescuing the
honour of Shakespeare himself from the tedious memory of a
commonplace intrigue. I put into the letter all my enthusiasm. I
put into the letter all my faith.
No sooner, in fact, had I sent it off than a curious reaction came
over me. It seemed to me that I had given away my capacity for
belief in the Willie Hughes theory of the Sonnets, that something
had gone out of me, as it were, and that I was perfectly
indifferent to the whole subject. What was it that had happened?
It is difficult to say. Perhaps, by finding perfect expression for
a passion, I had exhausted the passion itself. Emotional forces,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Before all else, the seas, the lands, the sky:
O Memmius, their threefold nature, lo,
Their bodies three, three aspects so unlike,
Three frames so vast, a single day shall give
Unto annihilation! Then shall crash
That massive form and fabric of the world
Sustained so many aeons! Nor do I
Fail to perceive how strange and marvellous
This fact must strike the intellect of man,-
Annihilation of the sky and earth
That is to be,- and with what toil of words
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: William Penberthy of Marazion, my good comrade. The Lord have
mercy on me!"
All were silent as the grave whenever Yeo made any allusion to that
lost child. Ayacanora only, pleased with Amyas's commendation,
went humming on to herself--
"And heave, my mariners all, O!"
Yeo started up from the gun where he sat.
"I can't abear it! As I live, I can't! You, Indian maiden, where
did you learn to sing that there?"
Ayacanora looked up at him, half frightened by his vehemence, then
at Amyas, to see if she had been doing anything wrong; and then
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