| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war,
insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--
seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather
than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather
than let it perish. And the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed
generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.
These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew
that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen,
perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: white light of day had revealed her to some passing
boatman hurrying to his nets.
Her keen eye quickly swept the circle of the wide,
silent world of sand-dunes, marsh and waters. No
prying eye was near. Only the morning star still
gleaming above saw. And they were twin sisters.
Four days flew on velvet wings before the first
cloud threw its shadow across her life. Jim always
slept until nine o'clock, and refused with dogged good-
natured indifference to stir when she had asked him to
get the wood for breakfast. It was nothing, of course,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: filled the room like the taste of poison, the wide, overwhelming presence.
"It's HE?"
I was so determined to have all my proof that I flashed into ice
to challenge him. "Whom do you mean by `he'?"
"Peter Quint--you devil!" His face gave again, round the room,
its convulsed supplication. "WHERE?"
They are in my ears still, his supreme surrender of the name
and his tribute to my devotion. "What does he matter now,
my own?--what will he EVER matter? _I_ have you,"
I launched at the beast, "but he has lost you forever!"
Then, for the demonstration of my work, "There, THERE!"
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