| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: couldn't make out what he said, but I thought he asked
was the professor up there. I shouts:
"No, he's down in the ocean! Come up! Can
we help you?"
Of course, all this in the dark.
"Huck, who is you hollerin' at?"
"I'm hollerin' at Tom."
"Oh, Huck, how kin you act so, when you know
po' Mars Tom --" Then he let off an awful scream,
and flung his head and his arms back and let off another
one, because there was a white glare just then, and he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: (as was too common in those days) the gaol-fever from the
prisoners; sickened in the very court; and died within a week.
And now Mrs. Leigh was left to God and her own soul, with this
young lion-cub in leash, to tame and train for this life and the
life to come. She had loved her husband fervently and holily. He
had been often peevish, often melancholy; for he was a disappointed
man, with an estate impoverished by his father's folly, and his own
youthful ambition, which had led him up to Court, and made him
waste his heart and his purse in following a vain shadow. He was
one of those men, moreover, who possess almost every gift except
the gift of the power to use them; and though a scholar, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: LORD WINDERMERE. You must know. I demand an explanation. Don't
hold me, you fool. [To CECIL GRAHAM.]
LORD DARLINGTON. [Aside.] She is here after all!
LORD WINDERMERE. Speak, sir! Why is my wife's fan here? Answer
me! By God! I'll search your rooms, and if my wife's here, I'll -
[Moves.]
LORD DARLINGTON. You shall not search my rooms. You have no right
to do so. I forbid you!
LORD WINDERMERE. You scoundrel! I'll not leave your room till I
have searched every corner of it! What moves behind that curtain?
[Rushes towards the curtain C.]
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