| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Gleams of celestial light encircle her forehead with splendor,
Such as the artist paints o'er the brows of saints and apostles,
Or such as hangs by night o'er a city seen at a distance.
Unto their eyes it seemed the lamps of the city celestial,
Into whose shining gates erelong their spirits would enter.
Thus, on a Sabbath morn, through the streets, deserted and
silent,
Wending her quiet way, she entered the door of the almshouse.
Sweet on the summer air was the odor of flowers in the garden;
And she paused on her way to gather the fairest among them,
That the dying once more might rejoice in their fragrance and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Where are you going?" demanded Gatsby in immediate alarm.
"I'll be back."
"I've got to speak to you about something before you go."
He followed me wildly into the kitchen, closed the door, and whispered:
"Oh, God!" in a miserable way.
"What's the matter?"
"This is a terrible mistake," he said, shaking his head from side to
side, "a terrible, terrible mistake."
"You're just embarrassed, that's all," and luckily I added: "Daisy's
embarrassed too."
"She's embarrassed?" he repeated incredulously.
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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: Mrs. Jordan gaped again. "The REAL 'smarts'?"
"Is that what you call Mrs. Bubb? Yes--it comes to me; I've had
Mrs. Bubb. I don't think she has been in herself, but there are
things her maid has brought. Well, my dear!"--and the young person
from Cocker's, recalling these things and summing them up, seemed
suddenly to have much to say. She didn't say it, however; she
checked it; she only brought out: "Her maid, who's horrid--SHE
must have her!" Then she went on with indifference: "They're TOO
real! They're selfish brutes."
Mrs. Jordan, turning it over, adopted at last the plan of treating
it with a smile. She wished to be liberal. "Well, of course, they
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