| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: make him. If he won't I'll . . . I'll shoot him!
LORETTA. [Crying out with alarm.] Oh, Ned, you won't do that?
NED. [Sternly.] I shall.
LORETTA. But I don't want to marry Billy.
NED. [Sternly.] You must. And Billy must. Do you understand?
It is the only thing.
LORETTA. That's what Billy said.
NED. [Triumphantly.] You see, I am right.
LORETTA. And if . . . if I don't marry him . . . there will be .
. . scandal?
NED. [Calmly.] Yes, there will be scandal.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: started bolt upright - Attention! - and made such a low bow, that
if it had not been full of the spirit of justice, it must have
tumbled on its end, and probably hurt its one eye. And Tom made
his bow too.
"Oh, ma'am," he said, "don't think about me; that's all past and
gone, and good times and bad times and all times pass over. But
may not I help poor Mr. Grimes? Mayn't I try and get some of these
bricks away, that he may move his arms?"
"You may try, of course," she said.
So Tom pulled and tugged at the bricks: but he could not move one.
And then he tried to wipe Mr. Grimes' face: but the soot would not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that you were the Kaiser. Thus would I do!" And he lunged his
bayonet through von Schoenvorts' chest. Then he let his rifle
fall with the dying man and wheeled toward Bradley. "Here I am,"
he said. "Do with me as you like. All my life I have been
kicked and cuffed by such as that, and yet always have I gone out
when they commanded, singing, to give up my life if need be to
keep them in power. Only lately have I come to know what a fool
I have been. But now I am no longer a fool, and besides, I am
avenged and Schwerke is avenged, so you can kill me if you wish.
Here I am."
"If I was after bein' the king," said Olson, "I'd pin the V.C. on
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