| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: and readjust the relations of certain men with certain women!
While the attraction, physical and intellectual, which binds sex to sex
would remain the same in volume and intensity, the forms in which it would
express itself, and, above all, the relative power of individuals to
command the gratification of their instincts and desires, would be
fundamentally altered, and in many cases inverted.
In the barbarian state of societies, where physical force dominates, it is
the most muscular and pugilistically and brutally and animally successful
male who captures and possesses the largest number of females; and no doubt
he would be justified in regarding any social change which gave to woman a
larger freedom of choice, and which would so perhaps give to the less
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: followed up. The nurse was found who took care of Edna's
``mother'' during her confinement and it was found that Edna's
whole story was quite untrue. It was evidently an elaborate
fabrication representing the facts as they might have been about
Edna herself. The only part of it that was true was that one of
the younger children had been for a time in an incubator.
``Since I was 10 years old I have known about that. I have known
I was not her child. She said something that sounded queer to me
once when I ran away. It made me think she was not my mother.
``Why do I tell lies? I got started at it when I was small. She
used to make me tell lies to my father. I began to steal when I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: said Vuyning. "And you say a horse at the end of a
thirty-foot rope can't pull a ten-inch stake out of wet
prairie? Well, good-bye, old man, if you must
be off."
At one o'clock Vuyning had luncheon with Miss
Allison by previous arrangement.
For thirty minutes be babbled to her, unaccount-
ably, of ranches, horses, cations, cyclones, round-ups,
Rocky Mountains and beans and bacon. She looked
at him with wondering and half-terrified eyes.
"I was going to propose again to-day," said Vuy-
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