| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: He read one of them every six months, he said. And why should that make
Charles Tansley angry? He rushed in (all, thought Mrs Ramsay, because
Prue will not be nice to him) and denounced the Waverly novels when he
knew nothing about it, nothing about it whatsoever, Mrs Ramsay thought,
observing him rather than listening to what he said. She could see how
it was from his manner--he wanted to assert himself, and so it would
always be with him till he got his Professorship or married his wife,
and so need not be always saying, "I--I--I." For that was what his
criticism of poor Sir Walter, or perhaps it was Jane Austen, amounted
to. "I---I---I." He was thinking of himself and the impression he
was making, as she could tell by the sound of his voice, and his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: and how untamed and optimistic, and how strange it was that being
convinced, as he was, of all sorts of horrors, seemed not to depress
him, but to cheer him. Was it not odd, she reflected? Indeed he
seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind,
deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary
things, with an eye like an eagle's. His understanding often
astonished her. But did he notice the flowers? No. Did he notice the
view? No. Did he even notice his own daughter's beauty, or whether
there was pudding on his plate or roast beef? He would sit at table
with them like a person in a dream. And his habit of talking aloud, or
saying poetry aloud, was growing on him, she was afraid; for sometimes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: conquer Death; Right will conquer Wrong. All will be well at
last. Keep your soul and body pure, humble, busy, pious--in one
word, be good: and ere you die, or after you die, you may have
some glimpse of Me, the Everlasting Why: and hear with the ears,
not of your body but of your spirit, men and all rational beings,
plants and animals, ay, the very stones beneath your feet, the
clouds above your head, the planets and the suns away in farthest
space, singing eternally,
"'Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power,
for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are
and were created."'
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