| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: No shepherd now, a hermit I must be.
Me thinks this fits me very well;
Now must I learn to bear a walking staff,
And exercise some gravity withall.
[Enter the Clown.]
MOUSE.
Here's throw the wods, and throw the wods, to
look out a shepherd & a stray king's daughter:
but soft, who have we here? what art thou?
MUCEDORUS.
I am a hermit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: stop, I kept on like a barrel going down-bill. The thought of rolling into
the spring filled me with horror. Suddenly I bumped hard into something
that checked me. It was a log of firewood, and in one end stuck the big
knife which Herky-Jerky used to cut meat.
Instantly I conceived the idea of cutting my bonds with this knife. But how
was I to set about it?
"Dick, here's a knife. How'll I get to it so as to free myself?"
"Easy as pie," replied he, eagerly. "The sharp edge points down. You hitch
yourself this way--That's it---good!"
What Dick called easy as pie was the hardest work I ever did. I lay flat on
my back, bound hand and foot, and it was necessary to jerk my body along
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: "Say, what's the matter in there?" he asked
persuasively.
A moment's silence, and then a gruff voice slowly
answered:
"They ain't nobody at home!"
"The hell they ain't!" Jim laughed.
"No!"
"Who are you?"
She hesitated and then growled back:
"None o' your business. Who are you?"
"We're strangers up here--lost our way. It's
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