| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: argued further with him, his son's boldness and bitter satire of
the gods might kindle him to hotter anger, and lead him to do him
a mischief, he arose in wrath and withdrew. "Would that thou
hadst never been born," he cried, "nor hadst come to the light of
day, destined as thou weft to be such an one, a blasphemer of the
gods, and a renegade from thy father's love and admonition" But
thou shalt not alway mock the invincible gods, nor shall their
enemies rejoice for long, nor shall these knavish sorceries
prevail. For except thou become obedient unto me, and right-
minded toward the gods, I will first deliver time to sundry
tortures, and then put thee to the cruellest death, dealing with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: microscopic motes. She listened to everything; she was a woman who
answered intimately but who utterly didn't chatter. She scattered
abroad therefore no cloud of words; she could assent, she could
agree, above all she could encourage, without doing that. Only at
the last she went a little further than he had done himself. "And
then how do you know? You may still, after all, want to live
here." It rather indeed pulled him up, for it wasn't what he had
been thinking, at least in her sense of the words, "You mean I may
decide to stay on for the sake of it?"
"Well, WITH such a home - !" But, quite beautifully, she had too
much tact to dot so monstrous an I, and it was precisely an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: "Umbrella--nice umbrella with a 'orn 'andle. Savin's. Very careful
I was. . . ."
He was pensive for a little while, thinking, as we must all come
to think sooner or later, of the vanished brightness of youth.
But he refrained, as one may do in taprooms, from the obvious moral.
"I got to know 'er through a chap what was engaged to 'er sister.
She was stopping in London for a bit with an aunt that 'ad a 'am
an' beef shop. This aunt was very particular--they was all very
particular people, all 'er people was--and wouldn't let 'er sister
go out with this feller except 'er other sister, MY girl that is,
went with them. So 'e brought me into it, sort of to ease the crowding.
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