| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: He had had terrible weather on the passage out--terrible--terrible--
wife aboard, too.
By this time we were seated in the cabin and the steward brought in a
tray with a bottle and glasses. "Thanks! No." Never took liquor.
Would have some water, though. He drank two tumblerfuls.
Terrible thirsty work. Ever since daylight had been exploring
the islands round his ship.
"What was that for--fun?" I asked, with an appearance of polite interest.
"No!" He sighed. "Painful duty."
As he persisted in his mumbling and I wanted my double to hear every word,
I hit upon the notion of informing him that I regretted to say I was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: Lucien--about thirty in all--and Madame de Serizy's somewhat
voluminous correspondence.
Then he waited on the public prosecutor.
The Palais de Justice is a perplexing maze of buildings piled one
above another, some fine and dignified, others very mean, the whole
disfigured by its lack of unity. The Salle des Pas-Perdus is the
largest known hall, but its nakedness is hideous, and distresses the
eye. This vast Cathedral of the Law crushes the Supreme Court. The
Galerie Marchande ends in two drain-like passages. From this corridor
there is a double staircase, a little larger than that of the Criminal
Courts, and under it a large double door. The stairs lead down to one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: evolution in the past; but closely examined, it will, we think, be found to
have no practical or scientific basis, and to be out of harmony with the
conditions of modern life. In ancient and primitive societies, the mere
larger size and muscular strength of man, and woman's incessant physical
activity in child-bearing and suckling and rearing the young, made almost
inevitable a certain sexual division of labour in almost all countries,
save perhaps in ancient Egypt. (The division of labour between the sexes
in Ancient Egypt and other exceptional countries, is a matter of much
interest, which cannot here be entered on.) Woman naturally took the heavy
agricultural and domestic labours, which were yet more consistent with the
continual dependence of infant life on her own, than those of man in war
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