| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: But, doubtful of the wish'd event, he stays,
And from the hollow cloud his friends surveys,
Impatient till they told their present state,
And where they left their ships, and what their fate,
And why they came, and what was their request;
For these were sent, commission'd by the rest,
To sue for leave to land their sickly men,
And gain admission to the gracious queen.
Ent'ring, with cries they fill'd the holy fane;
Then thus, with lowly voice, Ilioneus began:
"O queen! indulg'd by favor of the gods
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: in his teeth. Leary, besides, had marines under arms, ready to
land them if it should be necessary to protect the work. But
Becker looked on without interference, perhaps glad enough to have
the bridge repaired; for even Becker may not always have offended
intentionally. Such was now the distracted posture of the little
town: all government extinct, the German consul patrolling it with
armed men and issuing proclamations like a ruler, the two other
Powers defying his commands, and at least one of them prepared to
use force in the defiance. Close on its skirts sat the warriors of
Mataafa, perhaps four thousand strong, highly incensed against the
Germans, having all to gain in the seizure of the town and firm,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: benefit, but she couldn't do anything else. She had been
accustomed to regard her as tremendously provided for, and she was
up to her eyes in promises to anxious Coxons. She was a woman of
an inordinate conscience, and her conscience was now a distress to
her, hovering round her bed in irreconcilable forms of resentful
husbands, portionless nieces and undiscoverable philosophers.
We were by this time getting into the whirr of fleeting platforms,
the multiplication of lights. "I think you'll find," I said with a
laugh, "that your predicament will disappear in the very fact that
the philosopher is undiscoverable."
He began to gather up his papers. "Who can set a limit to the
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