| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: increasing ardor of a hobby which had long been his in secret. No
discourse could have worn a more welcome sound in Katharine's ears.
For weeks she had heard nothing that made such pleasant music in her
mind. It wakened echoes in all those remote fastnesses of her being
where loneliness had brooded so long undisturbed.
She wished he would go on for ever talking of plants, and showing her
how science felt not quite blindly for the law that ruled their
endless variations. A law that might be inscrutable but was certainly
omnipotent appealed to her at the moment, because she could find
nothing like it in possession of human lives. Circumstances had long
forced her, as they force most women in the flower of youth, to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Follows, too often, hopes absurd
And plausible deceivers.
My First to get at wisdom tries -
A failure melancholy!
My Second men revered as wise:
My Third from heights of wisdom flies
To depths of frantic folly.
My First is ageing day by day:
My Second's age is ended:
My Third enjoys an age, they say,
That never seems to fade away,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: than the flower is able to control the arrangement of its
verticils. The Epeira practises higher geometry without knowing or
caring. The thing works of itself and takes its impetus from an
instinct imposed upon creation from the start.
The stone thrown by the hand returns to earth describing a certain
curve; the dead leaf torn and wafted away by a breath of wind makes
its journey from the tree to the ground with a similar curve. On
neither the one side nor the other is there any action by the
moving body to regulate the fall; nevertheless, the descent takes
place according to a scientific trajectory, the 'parabola,' of
which the section of a cone by a plane furnished the prototype to
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