| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: inquired Challoner, deftly evading the word 'shop.'
'A vendor, sir, a vendor,' returned the other, pocketing his
poesy. 'I help old Happy and Glorious. Can I offer you a
weed?'
'Well, I scarcely like . . . ' began Challoner.
'Nonsense, my dear fellow,' cried the shopman. 'We are very
proud of the business; and the old man, let me inform you,
besides being the most egregious of created beings from the
point of view of ethics, is literally sprung from the loins
of kings. "DE GODALL JE SUIS LE FERVENT." There is only one
Godall. - By the way,' he added, as Challoner lit his cigar,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: her post. She declines to leave her treasure.
Even so does the Narbonne Lycosa struggle when we try to take away
her pill. Each displays the same pluck and the same devotion; and
also the same denseness in distinguishing her property from that of
others. The Lycosa accepts without hesitation any strange pill
which she is, given in exchange for her own; she confuses alien
produce with the produce of her ovaries and her silk-factory.
Those hallowed words, maternal love, were out of place here: it is
an impetuous, an almost mechanical impulse, wherein real affection
plays no part whatever. The beautiful Spider of the rock-roses is
no more generously endowed. When moved from her nest to another of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: them after the present mode; destroy all his plantations, and
cast others into such a form as modern usage required, and give
the same directions to all his tenants, unless he would submit to
incur the censure of pride, singularity, affectation, ignorance,
caprice, and perhaps increase his majesty's displeasure; that the
admiration I appeared to be under would cease or diminish, when
he had informed me of some particulars which, probably, I never
heard of at court, the people there being too much taken up in
their own speculations, to have regard to what passed here
below."
The sum of his discourse was to this effect: "That about forty
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