| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: was looking at his companion so intently, that he thought of
nothing else. His emotion paralyzed his strength, while the girl,
who was sitting on the steerer's seat, gave herself up to the
enjoyment of being on the water. She felt disinclined to think,
felt a lassitude in her limbs a complete self-relaxation, as if
she were intoxicated. She had become very flushed, and breathed
pantingly. The effect of the wine, increased by the extreme heat,
made all the trees on the bank seem to bow, as she passed. A
vague wish for enjoyment, a fermentation of her blood, seemed to
pervade her whole body, and she was also a little agitated by
this tete-a-tete on the water, in a place which seemed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: with my fingers, and constantly striving to interpret varieties
of size, shape, and style, and relationships of design.
After
a while I could vaguely guess at the nature of the bygone structure,
and at the designs which had once stretched over the vast surfaces
of the primal masonry. The perfect identity of the whole with
some of my dream-glimpses appalled and unnerved me.
This was
once a Cyclopean corridor thirty feet tall, paved with octagonal
blocks and solidly vaulted overhead. There would have been rooms
opening off on the right, and at the farther end one of those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: When back again this ring shall be deliver'd;
And on your finger in the night, I'll put
Another ring; that what in time proceeds
May token to the future our past deeds.
Adieu till then; then fail not. You have won
A wife of me, though there my hope be done.
BERTRAM.
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.
[Exit.]
DIANA.
For which live long to thank both heaven and me!
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