| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: the poet kneels in church below painted windows, and makes
tremulous supplication to the Mother of God.
In our mixed world, full of green fields and happy lovers,
where not long before, Joan of Arc had led one of the highest
and noblest lives in the whole story of mankind, this was all
worth chronicling that our poet could perceive. His eyes
were indeed sealed with his own filth. He dwelt all his life
in a pit more noisome than the dungeon at Meun. In the moral
world, also, there are large phenomena not cognisable out of
holes and corners. Loud winds blow, speeding home deep-laden
ships and sweeping rubbish from the earth; the lightning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: containing them all, in order to improve the content ratios of
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 [This was November 21, old style calendar]
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten,
the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: although I wonder why."
"They were strictly fresh and above suspicion," said Billina. "You
ought to be glad to get them."
"I'll transform you all into scorpions!" cried the King, angrily, and
began waving his arms and muttering magic words.
But none of the people became scorpions, so the King stopped and
looked at them in surprise.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"Why, you are not wearing your magic belt," replied the Chief Steward,
after looking the King over carefully. "Where is it? What have you
done with it?"
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