| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: and showing the ragged, worn soles of the shoes, the forehead and
grey hair beaded with fog, the poor, faded bonnet awry, the poor,
faded dress soiled and torn.
Hilda drew close to her mother, kissing her face, twining her
arms around her neck. For a long time, she lay that way,
alternately sobbing and sleeping. Then, after a long time, there
was a stir. She woke from a doze to find a police officer and
two or three other men bending over her. Some one carried a
lantern. Terrified, smitten dumb, she was unable to answer the
questions put to her. Then a woman, evidently a mistress of the
house on the top of the hill, arrived and took Hilda in her arms
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: He evidently tried to remember, but it dropped--he had lost it.
"I don't know!"
He almost smiled at me in the desolation of his surrender,
which was indeed practically, by this time, so complete that I
ought to have left it there. But I was infatuated--I was blind
with victory, though even then the very effect that was to have
brought him so much nearer was already that of added separation.
"Was it to everyone?" I asked.
"No; it was only to--" But he gave a sick little headshake.
"I don't remember their names."
"Were they then so many?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: in her mind I vowed that she should be nothing in yours.
I felt that she was only my niece after all; I told her she
might marry, but that I should take no interest in it,
and should not bother you about it either."
"It wouldn't have been bothering me. Mother, you did wrong."
"I thought it might disturb you in your business, and that
you might throw up your situation, or injure your prospects
in some way because of it, so I said nothing. Of course,
if they had married at that time in a proper manner,
I should have told you at once."
"Tamsin actually being married while we are sitting here!"
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