| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: that nothing can now prevent them from falling on our fleet.
Jove, moreover, has sent his lightnings on their right; Hector,
in all his glory, rages like a maniac; confident that Jove is
with him he fears neither god nor man, but is gone raving mad,
and prays for the approach of day. He vows that he will hew the
high sterns of our ships in pieces, set fire to their hulls, and
make havoc of the Achaeans while they are dazed and smothered in
smoke; I much fear that heaven will make good his boasting, and
it will prove our lot to perish at Troy far from our home in
Argos. Up, then, and late though it be, save the sons of the
Achaeans who faint before the fury of the Trojans. You will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: After a march of some days we came to an opening between the
mountains, the only passage out of Dancali into Abyssinia. Heaven
seems to have made this place on purpose for the repose of weary
travellers, who here exchange the tortures of parching thirst,
burning sands, and a sultry climate, for the pleasures of shady
trees, the refreshment of a clear stream, and the luxury of a
cooling breeze. We arrived at this happy place about noon, and the
next day at evening left those fanning winds, and woods flourishing
with unfading verdure, for the dismal barrenness of the vast
uninhabitable plains, from which Abyssinia is supplied with salt.
These plains are surrounded with high mountains, continually covered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: they were in danger, Captain Everard and Lady Bradeen: it beat
every novel in the shop. She thought of Mr. Mudge and his safe
sentiment; she thought of herself and blushed even more for her
tepid response to it. It was a comfort to her at such moments to
feel that in another relation--a relation supplying that affinity
with her nature that Mr. Mudge, deluded creature, would never
supply--she should have been no more tepid than her ladyship. Her
deepest soundings were on two or three occasions of finding herself
almost sure that, if she dared, her ladyship's lover would have
gathered relief from "speaking" to her. She literally fancied once
or twice that, projected as he was toward his doom, her own eyes
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