| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: money-belt that you beat it with like a scared cat after croaking
Deemer!"
How queer and dim the light seemed to go suddenly - or was it a blur
before her own eyes? She said nothing. Her mind seemed to be
groping its way out of darkness toward some faint gleam of light
showing in the far distance. She heard Danglar order his brother
savagely to hold his tongue. That was curious, too, because she
was grateful for the man's gibe. Gypsy Nan, in her proper person,
had murdered a man named Deemer in an effort to secure - Danglar's
voice came again:
"Well, to-night we'll get that stuff, all of it - it's worth a cool
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: and the conviction that each person is an isolated unit. The
whole of our modern society has been founded on this delusive
idea, WHICH IS FALSE. You go into the markets, and every man's
hand is against the others--that is the ruling principle. You
go into the Law Courts where justice is, or should be,
administered, and you find that the principle which denies unity
is the one that prevails. The criminal (whose actions have really
been determined by the society around him) is cast out,
disacknowledged, and condemned to further isolation in a prison
cell. 'Property' again is the principle which rules and
determines our modern civilization--namely that which is proper
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify
Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.
'The diamond, why 'twas beautiful and hard,
Whereto his invis'd properties did tend;
The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard
Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;
The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend
With objects manifold; each several stone,
With wit well blazon'd, smil'd, or made some moan.
'Lo! all these trophies of affections hot,
Of pensiv'd and subdued desires the tender,
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