| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: the throat, and went on shaking him like a rat, the men above us yelling,
`Look out! look out!' Then a crash as if the sky had fallen on my head.
They say that for over ten minutes hardly anything was to be seen
of the ship--just the three masts and a bit of the forecastle head
and of the poop all awash driving along in a smother of foam.
It was a miracle that they found us, jammed together behind the forebitts.
It's clear that I meant business, because I was holding him by the throat
still when they picked us up. He was black in the face. It was too much
for them. It seems they rushed us aft together, gripped as we were,
screaming `Murder!' like a lot of lunatics, and broke into the cuddy.
And the ship running for her life, touch and go all the time, any minute
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Ile maintaine my proceedings; pray, be pleas'd
To shew in generous termes your griefes, since that
Your question's with your equall, who professes
To cleare his owne way with the minde and Sword
Of a true Gentleman.
PALAMON.
That thou durst, Arcite!
ARCITE.
My Coz, my Coz, you have beene well advertis'd
How much I dare, y'ave seene me use my Sword
Against th'advice of feare: sure, of another
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: Ginevra shared their political passions. What more natural, therefore,
than the ardor with which they found a refuge in the heart of their
only child?
Until now the occupations of public life had absorbed the energy of
the Baron di Piombo; but after leaving those employments he felt the
need of casting that energy into the last sentiment that remained to
him. Apart from the ties of parentage, there may have been, unknown to
these three despotic souls, another powerful reason for the intensity
of their reciprocal love: it was love undivided. Ginevra's whole heart
belonged to her father, as Piombo's whole heart belonged to his child;
and if it be true that we are bound to one another more by our defects
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