| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Hilma leaped back from him with an instinctive recoil of her
whole being, throwing out her hands in a gesture of defence,
fearing she knew not what. There was as yet no sense of insult
in her mind, no outraged modesty. She was only terrified. It
was as though searching for wild flowers she had come suddenly
upon a snake.
She stood for an instant, spellbound, her eyes wide, her bosom
swelling; then, all at once, turned and fled, darting across the
plank that served for a foot bridge over the creek, gaining the
opposite bank and disappearing with a brisk rustle of underbrush,
such as might have been made by the flight of a frightened fawn.
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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: Thou, a scared dullard, gibbering low,
AND SHE, AN AVALANCHE OF WOE!"
TEMA CON VARIAZIONI
[WHY is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process
of Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art
Music? The Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known
Air, then a dozen bars of his own, then a few more notes of the
Air, and so on alternately: thus saving the listener, if not from
all risk of recognising the melody at all, at least from the too-
exciting transports which it might produce in a more concentrated
form. The process is termed "setting" by Composers, and any one,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: lives, that he comes to Paris; we have seen many other such.
Let him come."
"Yes," echoed Porthos, glancing affectionately at his sword,
still hanging on the wall; "we can wait for him; let him
come."
"Moreover, he is but a child," said Aramis.
Grimaud rose.
"A child!" he exclaimed. "Do you know what he has done, this
child? Disguised as a monk he discovered the whole history
in confession from the executioner of Bethune, and having
confessed him, after having learned everything from him, he
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