| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: who, like the drunken soldier in the shop, should have an
unfavourable effect on business. He seemed positively to enter,
for the time and without the faintest flash of irony or ripple of
laughter, into the whimsical grounds of her enjoyment of Cocker's
custom, and instantly to be casting up whatever it might, as Mrs.
Jordan had said, lead to. What he had in mind was not of course
what Mrs. Jordan had had: it was obviously not a source of
speculation with him that his sweetheart might pick up a husband.
She could see perfectly that this was not for a moment even what he
supposed she herself dreamed of. What she had done was simply to
give his sensibility another push into the dim vast of trade. In
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: Euphorbus, whose love-locks were looped with gold, and the Priamid,
the lion-hearted, Patroklus, the comrade of comrades, must meet his
doom. Phantoms, are they? Heroes of mist and mountain? Shadows
in a song? No: they are real. Action! What is action? It dies
at the moment of its energy. It is a base concession to fact. The
world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
ERNEST. While you talk it seems to me to be so.
GILBERT. It is so in truth. On the mouldering citadel of Troy
lies the lizard like a thing of green bronze. The owl has built
her nest in the palace of Priam. Over the empty plain wander
shepherd and goatherd with their flocks, and where, on the wine-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: EZR 7:3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
EZR 7:4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
EZR 7:5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the chief priest:
EZR 7:6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in
the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king
granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God
upon him.
EZR 7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the
priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the
Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
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