| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: For through this laund anon the deer will come;
And in this covert will we make our stand,
Culling the principal of all the deer.
2 KEEPER.
I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.
1 KEEPER.
That cannot be; the noise of thy crossbow
Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
Here stand we both, and aim we at the best;
And, for the time shall not seem tedious,
I'll tell thee what befell me on a day
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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: You must be informed then, that Gastripheres, who had taken a turn into the
kitchen a little before dinner, to see how things went on--observing a
wicker-basket of fine chesnuts standing upon the dresser, had ordered that
a hundred or two of them might be roasted and sent in, as soon as dinner
was over--Gastripheres inforcing his orders about them, that Didius, but
Phutatorius especially, were particularly fond of 'em.
About two minutes before the time that my uncle Toby interrupted Yorick's
harangue--Gastripheres's chesnuts were brought in--and as Phutatorius's
fondness for 'em was uppermost in the waiter's head, he laid them directly
before Phutatorius, wrapt up hot in a clean damask napkin.
Now whether it was physically impossible, with half a dozen hands all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: Did you sling that bullet?'
'I did. I was using Dan's catapult,' said Una.
'Catapults!' said he. 'I ought to know something about
them. Show me!'
He leaped the rough fence with a rattle of spear, shield,
and armour, and hoisted himself into Volaterrae as
quickly as a shadow.
'A sling on a forked stick. I understand!' he cried, and
pulled at the elastic. 'But what wonderful beast yields
this stretching leather?'
'It's laccy - elastic. You put the bullet into that loop,
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