| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: by me. After all, however, this fight between Irus and the
stranger did not turn out as the suitors meant it to do, for the
stranger got the best of it. I wish Father Jove, Minerva, and
Apollo would break the neck of every one of these wooers of
yours, some inside the house and some out; and I wish they might
all be as limp as Irus is over yonder in the gate of the outer
court. See how he nods his head like a drunken man; he has had
such a thrashing that he cannot stand on his feet nor get back
to his home, wherever that may be, for has no strength left in
him."
Thus did they converse. Eurymachus then came up and said, "Queen
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: indistinguishable: as illustrated by the fact that in modern universities
the papers sent in by male and female candidates are as a rule absolutely
identical in type. Placed in like external conditions, their tastes and
emotions, over a vast part of the surface of life, are identical; and, in
an immense number of those cases where psychic sex differences appear to
exist, subject to rigid analysis they are found to be purely artificial
creations, for, when other races or classes are studied, they are found
non-existent as sexual characteristics; as when the female is supposed by
ignorant persons in modern European societies to have an inherent love for
bright colours and ornaments, not shared by the male; while experience of
other societies and past social conditions prove that it is as often the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: kissed the wound with my mouth till it was healed. I have not willed that
any soul shall be lost through hate of me. If they have but fancied that I
wronged them I have lain down on the ground before them that they might
tread on me, and so, seeing my humiliation, forgive and not be lost through
hating me; they have not cared that my soul should be lost; they have not
willed to save me; they have not tried that I should forgive them!'
"I said to him, 'See here, be thou content; do not forgive: forget this
soul and its injury; go on your way. In the next world perhaps--'
"He cried, 'Go from me, you understand nothing! What is the next world to
me! I am lost now, today. I cannot see the sunlight shine, the dust is in
my throat, the sand is in my eyes! Go from me, you know nothing! Oh, once
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