| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: but I might still set myself right."
She looked at him gently. "Don't I," she murmured, "do that?"
"In being yourself merely? Alas, the rehabilitation's too
complete! You make me seem--to myself even--what I'm not; what I
can never be. I can't, at times, defend myself from the delusion;
but I can at least enlighten others."
The flood was loosened, and kneeling by her he caught her hands.
"Don't you see that it's become an obsession with me? That if I
could strip myself down to the last lie--only there'd always be
another one left under it!--and do penance naked in the market-
place, I should at least have the relief of easing one anguish by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: But gradually, as he chewed, his face became
again quiet and contented. He could not rage
in fierce argument in the presence of such sand-
wiches. During his meals he always wore an air
of blissful contemplation of the food he had swal-
lowed. His spirit seemed then to be communing
with the viands.
He accepted new environment and circum-
stance with great coolness, eating from his haver-
sack at every opportunity. On the march he
went along with the stride of a hunter, object-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: reaching it. Probably hundreds of experiments had been made on
transparent crystals before he thought of testing his heavy glass.
Here is his own clear and simple description of the result of his
first experiment with this substance:--'A piece of this glass, about
two inches square, and 0.5 of an inch thick, having flat and
polished edges, was placed as a diamagnetic[1] between the poles
(not as yet magnetized by the electric current), so that the
polarized ray should pass through its length; the glass acted as
air, water, or any other transparent substance would do; and if the
eye-piece were previously turned into such a position that the
polarized ray was extinguished, or rather the image produced by it
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