| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: people may go back upon dark passages in the town's
adventures, and chill their marrow with winter's tales
about the fire: tales that are singularly apposite and
characteristic, not only of the old life, but of the very
constitution of built nature in that part, and singularly
well qualified to add horror to horror, when the wind
pipes around the tall LANDS, and hoots adown arched
passages, and the far-spread wilderness of city lamps
keeps quavering and flaring in the gusts.
Here, it is the tale of Begbie the bank-porter,
stricken to the heart at a blow and left in his blood
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Nimbly she fastens;--O! how quick is love:--
The steed is stalled up, and even now
To tie the rider she begins to prove: 40
Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,
And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.
So soon was she along, as he was down,
Each leaning on their elbows and their hips: 44
Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,
And 'gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips;
And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,
'If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.' 48
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: I've bought some of the first-year books already, and have been
reading them. Really, Condy, they are even better than 'Many
Inventions.'"
"Wish I could get East," muttered Condy gloomily. Blix forgot her
own good fortune upon the instant.
"I do so wish you COULD, Condy!" she exclaimed. "You are too good
for a Sunday supplement. I know it and YOU know it, and I've heard
ever so many people who have read your stories say the same thing.
You could spend twenty years working as you are now, and at the
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