| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: death. She had not sought it, she had not desired it. The
spell was laid upon her. Was it a blessing? Was it a
curse? It was all one; she was his, indissolubly, for evil
or for good.
And he? The very act of submission that bound the woman to
him forever had made her seem less desirable in his eyes.
Their undoing had already begun. Yet neither of them was to
blame. From the first they had not sought each other.
Chance had brought them face to face, and mysterious
instincts as ungovernable as the winds of heaven were at
work knitting their lives together. Neither of them had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: obstructions of any kind whatever. Then the party came to the
falls.
Here Orde purposed his most elaborate bit of rough engineering. The
falls were only about fifteen feet high, but they fell straight down
to a bed of sheer rock. This had been eaten by the eddies into pot-
holes and crannies until a jagged irregular scoop-hollow had formed
immediately underneath the fall. Naturally this implied a ledge
below.
In flood time the water boiled and roared through this obstruction
in a torrent. The saw logs, caught in the rush, plunged end on into
the scoop-hollow, hit with a crash, and were spewed out below more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: "without the authorities at home he could do nothing in the matter."
"Then do you, at least," replied Tithraustes, "while awaiting advice
from Lacedaemon, withdraw into the territory of Pharnabazus. Have I
not avenged you of your enemy?" "While, then, I am on my way thither,"
rejoined Agesilaus, "will you support my army with provisions?" On
this wise Tithraustes handed him thirty talents,[19] which the other
took, and forthwith began his march into Phrygia (the Phrygia of
Pharnabazus). He lay in the plain district above Cyme,[20] when a
message reached him from the home authorities, giving him absolute
disposal of the naval forces,[21] with the right to appoint the
admiral of his choice. This course the Lacedaemonians were led to
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