| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love'.
XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: hands?
To this hour art thou not tormented with the vile asthma that thou gattest
in skating against the wind in Flanders? and is it but two months ago, that
in a fit of laughter, on seeing a cardinal make water like a quirister
(with both hands) thou brakest a vessel in thy lungs, whereby, in two
hours, thou lost as many quarts of blood; and hadst thou lost as much more,
did not the faculty tell thee--it would have amounted to a gallon?--
Chapter 4.XXXI.
--But for heaven's sake, let us not talk of quarts or gallons--let us take
the story straight before us; it is so nice and intricate a one, it will
scarce bear the transposition of a single tittle; and, somehow or other,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: stumbling over his chair in his haste, he made toward her. Danglar
had recognized the White Moll!
She turned and ran. Fear, horror, desperation, lent her strength.
It was not like this that she had counted on her reckoning with
Danglar! She brushed the roisterers aside, and darted for the door.
Over her shoulder she glimpsed Danglar following her. She reached
the door, burst through a knot of people there, and, her torn veil
clutched in her hand, dashed down the steps. She could only run
- run, and pray that in some way she might escape.
And then a mad exultation came upon her. She saw the man in the
chauffeur's seat of the first car in the line lean out and swing
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