| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Bernauer evidently spent many of her hours. A row of books stood
against the wall, framing the back of the table. Well-worn volumes
of the classics among them gave proof that the one-time nurse was a
woman of education. A sewing basket and neat piles of house linen,
awaiting repairs, covered a large part of the table-top, and beside
them stood a gracefully shaped lamp, covered by a shade of soft red
silk.
It took Muller but a few seconds to see all this. Then he set about
his investigation of the electric button. He unscrewed the plate
and examined the wires meeting under it. While doing so he cast
another glance at the table and saw a letter lying there, an open
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: dangerous; not so much the facts of it as the feeling of it. At
times it appeared no more actual than a tradition; and she
thought of herself as of some woman in a ballad, who has to beg
for the lives of innocent captives. To save the lives of Mr.
Travers and Mr. d'Alcacer was more than a duty. It was a
necessity, it was an imperative need, it was an irresistible
mission. Yet she had to reflect upon the horrors of a cruel and
obscure death before she could feel for them the pity they
deserved. It was when she looked at Lingard that her heart was
wrung by an extremity of compassion. The others were pitiful, but
he, the victim of his own extravagant impulses, appeared tragic,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells: go first," said the guide. Graham drew his cloak
about him and followed. Then suddenly came a narrow
abyss across which the gutter leapt to the snowy
darkness of the further side. Graham peeped over the
side once and the gulf was black. For a moment he
regretted his flight. He dared not look again, and his
brain spun as he waded through the half liquid snow.
Then out of the gutter they clambered and hurried
across a wide flat space damp with thawing snow,
and for half its extent dimly translucent to lights that
went to and fro underneath. He hesitated at this
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