| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: it, and whose demerits had hitherto escaped, it was simply
because he condemned everything and everybody. While I was
with him he disposed of St. Paul with an epigram, shook my
reverence for Shakespeare in a neat antithesis, and fell foul
of the Almighty Himself, on the score of one or two out of
the ten commandments. Nothing escaped his blighting censure.
At every sentence he overthrew an idol, or lowered my
estimation of a friend. I saw everything with new eyes, and
could only marvel at my former blindness. How was it
possible that I had not before observed A's false hair, B's
selfishness, or C's boorish manners? I and my companion,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: were married, and had their wives and children, but most were single.
There was only one young girl there when I came. She was about seventeen,
fair, and rather fully-fleshed; she had large dreamy blue eyes, and wavy
light hair; full, rather heavy lips, until she smiled; then her face broke
into dimples, and all her white teeth shone. The hotel-keeper may have had
a daughter, and the farmer in the outskirts had two, but we never saw them.
She reigned alone. All the men worshipped her. She was the only woman
they had to think of. They talked of her on the stoep, at the market, at
the hotel; they watched for her at street corners; they hated the man she
bowed to or walked with down the street. They brought flowers to the front
door; they offered her their horses; they begged her to marry them when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
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