| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: She had passed the end of the Rue des Morts, when she fancied that she
could hear the firm, heavy tread of a man walking behind her. Then it
seemed to her that she had heard that sound before, and dismayed by
the idea of being followed, she tried to walk faster toward a brightly
lit shop window, in the hope of verifying the suspicions which had
taken hold of her mind.
So soon as she stood in the shaft of light that streamed out across
the road, she turned her head suddenly, and caught sight of a human
figure looming through the fog. The dim vision was enough for her. For
one moment she reeled beneath an overpowering weight of dread, for she
could not doubt any longer that the man had followed her the whole way
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: ALTER EGO "walked" - that was the note of his image of him, while
his image of his motive for his own odd pastime was the desire to
waylay him and meet him. He roamed, slowly, warily, but all
restlessly, he himself did - Mrs. Muldoon had been right,
absolutely, with her figure of their "craping"; and the presence he
watched for would roam restlessly too. But it would be as cautious
and as shifty; the conviction of its probable, in fact its already
quite sensible, quite audible evasion of pursuit grew for him from
night to night, laying on him finally a rigour to which nothing in
his life had been comparable. It had been the theory of many
superficially-judging persons, he knew, that he was wasting that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: What cause hadst thou to gad abroad,
When as thou knowest our wedding day so nigh?
AMADINE.
Not so, Segasto, no such thing in hand;
Shew your assurance, then I'll answer you.
SEGASTO.
Thy father's promise my assurance is.
AMADINE.
But what he promist he hath not performed.
SEGASTO.
It rests in thee for to perform the same.
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