| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: let us. Bruno's very anxious to see Lady Muriel again."
"She are welly nice," said Bruno.
"I shall be very glad to take you to see her again," I said.
"Hadn't I better give you back the Professor's Watch?
It'll be too large for you to carry when you're Fairies, you know."
Bruno laughed merrily. I was glad to see he had quite recovered from
the terrible scene he had gone through. "Oh no, it won't!" he said.
"When we go small, it'll go small!"
"And then it'll go straight to the Professor," Sylvie added, "and you
won't be able to use it anymore: so you'd better use it all you can, now.
We must go small when the sun sets. Good-bye!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: or compelled to select a new Emperor. We cannot believe that she
did it of her own free will, and for several reasons. First, the
child selected was the son and the grandson of ultra conservative
princes, and we cannot but believe that as she had placed herself
in the hands of the conservative party, it was their selection
rather than hers. Second, it must have been a humiliation to her
ever since she discovered that her nephew, whom she had selected
and placed upon the throne in order to keep the succession in her
own family, being the same generation as her son who had died,
could not worship him as his ancestor, and hence could not
legally occupy the throne, though as a matter of fact such a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: PALAMON.
What
Hath wakt us from our dreame?
PERITHOUS.
List then: your Cosen,
Mounted upon a Steed that Emily
Did first bestow on him, a blacke one, owing
Not a hayre worth of white--which some will say
Weakens his price, and many will not buy
His goodnesse with this note: Which superstition
Heere findes allowance--On this horse is Arcite
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