| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: see me some time ago, and told me that he did not believe a single
word of what was said against me, and wished me to know that he
considered me quite innocent, and the victim of a hideous plot. I
burst into tears at what he said, and told him that while there was
much amongst the definite charges that was quite untrue and
transferred to me by revolting malice, still that my life had been
full of perverse pleasures, and that unless he accepted that as a
fact about me and realised it to the full I could not possibly be
friends with him any more, or ever be in his company. It was a
terrible shock to him, but we are friends, and I have not got his
friendship on false pretences.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: relative or, itself a harmony, it would make only a discord.
In a sense this gradual renunciation of beauty was the second
step after his disillusion had been made complete. He felt that
he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of
artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of
man.
His mind turned a corner suddenly and he found himself thinking
of the Catholic Church. The idea was strong in him that there was
a certain intrinsic lack in those to whom orthodox religion was
necessary, and religion to Amory meant the Church of Rome. Quite
conceivably it was an empty ritual but it was seemingly the only
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: departure, for they were deprived of the assistance of the chief
candy-puller. Katy tried to secure another woman for this labor,
but could not find a person who would serve her in this capacity.
After a vain search, Mrs. Redburn thought she was able to do the
work herself, for her health seemed to be pretty well
established. Perhaps, she reasoned, it was quite as well that
Mrs. Colvin had gone, for if she could pull the candy herself, it
would save from two to three dollars a week.
Katy would not consent that she should do it alone, but agreed to
divide the labor between them. The quantity manufactured every
day was so great that the toil of making it fell heavily upon
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