| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: She was a taut, trim, neat little craft, extremely well kept; and
on that serene evening when we passed her close she looked the
embodiment of coquettish comfort on the sea. It was somewhere near
the Cape - THE Cape being, of course, the Cape of Good Hope, the
Cape of Storms of its Portuguese discoverer. And whether it is
that the word "storm" should not be pronounced upon the sea where
the storms dwell thickly, or because men are shy of confessing
their good hopes, it has become the nameless cape - the Cape TOUT
COURT. The other great cape of the world, strangely enough, is
seldom if ever called a cape. We say, "a voyage round the Horn";
"we rounded the Horn"; "we got a frightful battering off the Horn";
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: be near her against some opportunity to speak with her or
assist in her escape. But, after I had followed them from
the throne room, through several other apartments, and down
a long corridor, I found my further progress barred by a
soldier who stood guard before a doorway through which the
officer conducted Victory.
Almost immediately the officer reappeared and started back
in the direction of the throne room. I had been hiding in a
doorway after the guard had turned me back, having taken
refuge there while his back was turned, and, as the officer
approached me, I withdrew into the room beyond, which was in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: at everything, like the young and foolish lieutenant of artillery that
I was. When we reached the Beresina, the army had, as you know, lost
all discipline, and had forgotten military obedience. It was a medley
of men of all nations, instinctively making their way from north to
south. The soldiers would drive a general in rags and bare-foot away
from their fire if he brought neither wood nor victuals. After the
passage of this famous river disorder did not diminish. I had come
quietly and alone, without food, out of the marshes of Zembin, and was
wandering in search of a house where I might be taken in. Finding none
or driven away from those I came across, happily towards evening I
perceived a wretched little Polish farm, of which nothing can give you
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