| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: it was now locked. He arose quietly and stole to the turret-room.
There everything was as it had been on the previous evening. He
looked out of the window where high in air flew, as usual, the giant
kite. He unlocked the wicket gate of the turret stair and went out
on the roof. Close to him was the great coil of cord on its reel.
It was humming in the morning breeze, and when he touched the string
it sent a quick thrill through hand and arm. There was no sign
anywhere that there had been any disturbance or displacement of
anything during the night.
Utterly bewildered, he sat down in his room to think. Now for the
first time he FELT that he was asleep and dreaming. Presently he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: operations, half of them are in absolute indigence and the other half
roll in wealth. I bethought me, the history of the matter was worth
investigation. Accordingly I set to work investigating, and I found
that it all happened very naturally. Those who carried on their
affairs in a haphazard manner I saw were punished by their losses;
whilst those who kept their wits upon the stretch and paid attention I
soon perceived to be rewarded by the greater ease and profit of their
undertakings.[15] It is to these I would recommend you to betake
yourself. What say you? Learn of them: and unless the will of God
oppose,[16] I venture to say you will become as clever a man of
business as one might hope to see.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "But this promise? The promise demanded of me by the man to whom
I had given my love? Is it not my duty to keep it?"
Muller rose from his chair. His slight figure seemed to grow
taller, and the gentleness in his voice gave way to a commanding
tone of firm decision.
"Our duty is to the living, not to the dead. The dead have no right
to drag down others after them. Believe me, Miss Roemer, the
purpose that was in your betrothed's mind when he ended his own
life, has been fulfilled. Albert Graumann knows now what are the
feelings of a man who bears the prison stigma unjustly. He will
never again judge his fellow-men as harshly as he has done until
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