| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: her white eyelids it was to look at her ravished partner as though she
wished to transfer the glory of this admiration to him, and to say
that she cared more for his than for all the rest. She threw her
innocence into her vanity; or rather she seemed to give herself up to
the guileless admiration which is the beginning of love, with the good
faith found only in youthful hearts. As she danced, the lookers-on
might easily believe that she displayed her grace for Martial alone;
and though she was modest, and new to the trickery of the ballroom,
she knew as well as the most accomplished coquette how to raise her
eyes to his at the right moment and drop their lids with assumed
modesty.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: Make weak-made women tenants to their shame.
The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,
Assail'd by night with circumstances strong
Of present death, and shame that might ensue
By that her death, to do her husband wrong:
Such danger to resistance did belong;
The dying fear through all her body spread;
And who cannot abuse a body dead?
By this, mild Patience bid fair Lucrece speak
To the poor counterfeit of her complaining:
'My girl,' quoth she, 'on what occasion break
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: nanimous, the cowmen and the sheepmen, laying aside
their hereditary hatred, joined forces to celebrate the
occasion.
Sundown Ranch was sonorous with the cracking of
jokes and sixshooters, the shine of buckles and bright
eyes, the outspoken congratulations of the herders of kine.
But while the wedding feast was at its liveliest there
descended upon it Johnny MeRoy, bitten by jealousy,
like one possessed.
"I'll give you a Christmas present," he yelled, shrilly,
at the door, with his .45 in his hand. Even then he had
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