| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Though by the tenour of our strict edict,
Your exposition misinterpreting,
We might proceed to cancel of your days;
Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree
As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:
Forty days longer we do respite you;
If by which time our secret be undone,
This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:
And until then your entertain shall be
As doth befit our honour and your worth.
[Exeunt all but Pericles.]
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: to and fro, talking merrily together, their steps crackling o the
platform as they continuyally opened and closed the big doors.
The bent shadow of a man glided by at her feet, and she heard
sounds of a hammer upon iron. "Hand over that telegram1" came an
angry voice out of the stormy darkness on the other side. "This
way! No. 28!" several different voices shouted again, and
muffled figures ran by covered with snow. Two gentleman with
lighted cigarettes passed by her. She drew one more deep breath
of the fresh air, and had just put he hand out of her muff to
take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when
another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her,
Anna Karenina |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: I had two unfired cartridges in the chambers of my
gun. I let the big warrior have one of them, thinking
that his death would stop them all. But I guess they
were worked up to such a frenzy of rage by this time
that nothing would have stopped them. At any rate,
they only yelled the louder as he fell and increased
their speed toward me. I dropped another with my
remaining cartridge.
Then they were upon me--or almost. I thought of
my promise to Dian--the awful abyss was behind me
--a big devil with a huge bludgeon in front of me.
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