| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: the Shirt." It was all very well making songs about
poor women. The granddaughter of Colonel Whalley,
the landlady of a boarding-house! Pooh! He replaced
his hat, dived into two pockets, and stopping a moment
to apply a flaring match to the end of a cheap cheroot,
blew an embittered cloud of smoke at a world that could
hold such surprises.
Of one thing he was certain--that she was the own
child of a clever mother. Now he had got over the
wrench of parting with his ship, he perceived clearly
that such a step had been unavoidable. Perhaps he had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: ing their letters from the Russian camp of Eastern Siberia.
They proceeded by forced marches towards Irkutsk. They
hoped to distance Feofar-Khan, and would certainly have
done so, had it not been for the unexpected apparition of
the third column, come from the South, up the valley of
the Yenisei. They had been cut off, as had been Michael,
before being able even to reach the Dinka, and had been
obliged to go back to Lake Baikal.
They had been in the place for three days in much per-
plexity, when the raft arrived. The fugitives' plan was
explained to them. There was certainly a chance that they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: HEADSMAN
Why, God love you, sir,
I'll do you your last service on this earth.
GUIDO
My good Lord Cardinal, in a Christian land,
With Lord Christ's face of mercy looking down
From the high seat of Judgment, shall a man
Die unabsolved, unshrived? And if not so,
May I not tell this dreadful tale of sin,
If any sin there be upon my soul?
DUCHESS
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