| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky!
how delicious! She felt like some new-born creature, opening its
eyes in a familiar world that it had never known.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet, and coiled
like serpents about her ankles. She walked out. The water was
chill, but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her
white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch
of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close
embrace.
She went on and on. She remembered the night she swam far
out, and recalled the terror that seized her at the fear of being
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: hadn't been clean scared of them. The Mountain belongs
to this township, and it's North Dormer's fault if
there's a gang of thieves and outlaws living over
there, in sight of us, defying the laws of their
country. Why, there ain't a sheriff or a tax-collector
or a coroner'd durst go up there. When they hear of
trouble on the Mountain the selectmen look the other
way, and pass an appropriation to beautify the town
pump. The only man that ever goes up is the minister,
and he goes because they send down and get him whenever
there's any of them dies. They think a lot of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the rout at Uttoxeter, demanded his parole of honour not to go
beyond the wall of Hull without liberty. "He brought me the
message himself,--I told him I was ready to do so, provided he
removed his guards from me, for FIDES ET FIDUCIA SUNT RELATIVA;
and, if he took my word for my fidelity, he was obliged to trust
it, otherwise, it was needless for him to seek it, either to give
trust to my word, which I would not break, or his own guards, who
I supposed would not deceive him. In this manner I dealt with
him, because I knew him to be a scholar."--TURNER'S MEMOIRS, p.
80. The English officer allowed the strength of the reasoning;
but that concise reasoner, Cromwell, soon put an end to the
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