| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: and bringin' her her breakfast in bed sometimes. She sort of let things
go, didn't get me a proper dinner when I came home from work, and if I
said anything, flew out at me. And I flew back, hammer and tongs. She
flung a cup at me and I took her by the scruff of the neck and squeezed
the life out of her. That sort of thing! But she treated me with
insolence. And she got so's she'd never have me when I wanted her:
never. Always put me off, brutal as you like. And then when she'd put
me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and
get me. And I always went. But when I had her, she'd never come off
when I did. Never! She'd just wait. If I kept back for half an hour,
she'd keep back longer. And when I'd come and really finished, then
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: egg was little more than loo-warm; and as for A LA PAPIER, it was a
cold and sordid FRICASSEE of printer's ink and broken egg-shell.
We made shift to roast the other two, by putting them close to the
burning spirits; and that with better success. And then we
uncorked the bottle of wine, and sat down in a ditch with our canoe
aprons over our knees. It rained smartly. Discomfort, when it is
honestly uncomfortable and makes no nauseous pretensions to the
contrary, is a vastly humorous business; and people well steeped
and stupefied in the open air are in a good vein for laughter.
From this point of view, even egg A LA PAPIER offered by way of
food may pass muster as a sort of accessory to the fun. But this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: The sapient sutlers of the Lord
Drift across the window-panes.
In the beginning was the Word.
In the beginning was the Word.
Superfetation of [Greek text inserted here],
And at the mensual turn of time
Produced enervate Origen.
A painter of the Umbrian school
Designed upon a gesso ground
The nimbus of the Baptized God.
The wilderness is cracked and browned
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