| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: some accident compelled the submarine to reascend.
I was not mistaken. In a moment, the semi-obscurity of my cabin was
pierced by sunshine. The "Terror" had risen above water. I heard
steps on the deck, and the hatchways were re-opened, including mine.
I sprang up the ladder.
The captain had resumed his place at the helm, while the two men were
busy below. I looked to see if the destroyers were still in view.
Yes! Only a quarter of a mile away! The "Terror" had already been
seen, and the powerful vessels which enforced the mandates of our
government were swinging into position to give chase. Once more the
"Terror" sped in the direction of Niagara River.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: announced a profession was like a tinkle of bluebells; but for
herself her one idea about flowers was that people had them at
funerals, and her present sole gleam of light was that lords
probably had them most. When she watched, a minute later, through
the cage, the swing of her visitor's departing petticoats, she saw
the sight from the waist down; and when the counter-clerk, after a
mere male glance, remarked, with an intention unmistakeably low,
"Handsome woman!" she had for him the finest of her chills: "She's
the widow of a bishop." She always felt, with the counter-clerk,
that it was impossible sufficiently to put it on; for what she
wished to express to him was the maximum of her contempt, and that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: Has almost overta'en him in his growth.
YORK. Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.
DUCHESS. Why, my good cousin, it is good to grow.
YORK. Grandam, one night as we did sit at supper,
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow
More than my brother. 'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester
'Small herbs have grace: great weeds do grow apace.'
And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,
Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
DUCHESS. Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold
In him that did object the same to thee.
 Richard III |