| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: emotion might be wakened by fatherhood, he
would not have treated the birth of Masha's first
child in "Conjugal Happiness" as a trivial ma-
terial event, in no way affecting the mutual rela-
tions of the disillusioned pair. He would have
understood that at this supreme crisis, rather than
in the vernal hour of love's avowal, the heart is
illumined with a joy which is fated "never to re-
turn."
The parting of the ways, so soon reached by
Serge and Masha, was in fact delayed in Tolstoy's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum: 146
So the Woggle-Bug sat down upon the grass, facing the little group of
wanderers, and told them the following story:
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"It is but honest that I should acknowledge at the beginning of my recital
that I was born an ordinary Woggle-Bug," began the creature, in a frank and
friendly tone. "Knowing no better, I used my arms as well as my legs for
walking, and crawled under the edges of stones or hid among the roots of
grasses with no thought beyond finding a few insects smaller than myself to
feed upon.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: but which had the effect of giving her father so much confidence in her,
that he could not help considering her word a better security than
locks and bars.
The baron had been one of the last to hear of the rumours of
the new outlaws of Sherwood, as Matilda had taken all possible
precautions to keep those rumours from his knowledge, fearing that
they might cause the interruption of her greenwood liberty;
and it was only during her absence at Gamwell feast, that the butler,
being thrown off his guard by liquor, forgot her injunctions,
and regaled the baron with a long story of the right merry
adventure of Robin Hood and the abbot of Doubleflask.
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