| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: is being flogged with the lash, the direct result of
an order issued by the Minister of justice. Again
oblivion, and another scene. The family of a
Jewish watchmaker is evicted for being too poor.
The children are crying, and the Jew, Isaaks, is
greatly distressed. At last they come to an ar-
rangement, and he is allowed to stay on in the
lodgings.
The chief of police takes a bribe. The gov-
ernor of the province also secretly accepts a bribe.
Taxes are being collected. In the village, while
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: This manse of Anstruther Easter has another and a more cheerful
association. It was early in the morning, about a century before
the days of Mr. Thomson, that his predecessor was called out of bed
to welcome a Grandee of Spain, the Duke of Medina Sidonia, just
landed in the harbour underneath. But sure there was never seen a
more decayed grandee; sure there was never a duke welcomed from a
stranger place of exile. Half-way between Orkney and Shetland,
there lies a certain isle; on the one hand the Atlantic, on the
other the North Sea, bombard its pillared cliffs; sore-eyed, short-
living, inbred fishers and their families herd in its few huts; in
the graveyard pieces of wreck-wood stand for monuments; there is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
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