| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: margin between fear and cowardice as applied to herself, there hung
a man's life. Danglar was disappearing around the side of Shluker's
shop. She moved out from the wall, and swiftly, silently, crossed
the courtyard, gained the side of the junk shop in turn, skirted it,
and halted, listening, peering around her, as she reached the rear
corner of the building. A door closed somewhere ahead of her; from
above, upstairs, faint streaks of light showed through the
interstices of a shuttered window.
She crept forward now, hugging the rear wall, reached a door-the
one, obviously, through which Danglar had disappeared, and which
she had heard as it was closed - tried the door, found it unlocked,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: demands, I do most earnestly desire to obtain from willing hands and
under seal of true affection. To clutch it forcibly were as far from
my desire as to do myself some mortal mischief.
[42] Lit. "of tyrant to achieve," a met. from the chase. Cf.
"Hunting," xii. 22.
Were he my enemy, to wrest some spoil from his unwilling hands would
be an exquisite pleasure, to my thinking. But of all sweet favours the
sweetest to my notion is the free-will offering of a man's beloved.
For instance, how sweet the responsive glance of love for love; how
sweet the questions and the answers;[43] and, most sweet of all, most
love-enkindling, the battles and the strifes of faithful lovers.[44]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: the kind of interest we were looking for.
To get an idea of their attitude you have to hold in mind their
extremely high sense of solidarity. They were not each choosing
a lover; they hadn't the faintest idea of love--sex-love, that is.
These girls--to each of whom motherhood was a lodestar, and
that motherhood exalted above a mere personal function, looked
forward to as the highest social service, as the sacrament of a
lifetime--were now confronted with an opportunity to make the
great step of changing their whole status, of reverting to their
earlier bi-sexual order of nature.
Beside this underlying consideration there was the limitless
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