| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: glasses between them. A few other diners chatted and
whispered about similar tables but not too close to our
talkers to disturb them; the dining room behind them had
cleared its tables and depressed its illumination. The moon,
in its first quarter, hung above the sunset, sank after
twilight, shone brighter and brighter among the western
trees, and presently had gone, leaving the sky to an
increasing multitude of stars. The Maidenhead river wearing
its dusky blue draperies and its jewels of light had
recovered all the magic Sir Richmond had stripped from it in
the afternoon. The grave arches of the bridge, made complete
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: relentless, triumphant fire burst through the forward deck and shot
up to the foreyard.
She was leaning against the mizen shrouds, between the coils of
rope. Nobody appeared to notice her, although the quarter-deck was
fast filling with persons driven back by the fire, yet still
shrinking from the terror and uncertainty of the sea. She
thought: "It is but death--why should I fear? The waves are at
hand, to save me from all suffering." And the collective horror of
hundreds of beings did not so overwhelm her as she had both fancied
and feared; the tragedy of each individual life was lost in the
confusion, and was she not a sharer in their doom?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: had been for some time standing at the door with his hands in his
pockets, balancing himself on his heels and toes and looking
towards a piece of unenclosed ground, with a maple in the middle
of it, which he knew to be the destination of certain grave-
looking men and women whom he had observed passing at intervals.
Mr. Casson's person was by no means of that common type which can
be allowed to pass without description. On a front view it
appeared to consist principally of two spheres, bearing about the
same relation to each other as the earth and the moon: that is to
say, the lower sphere might be said, at a rough guess, to be
thirteen times larger than the upper which naturally performed the
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