| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: said, "if you insist upon my eating downtown, I'll do it; but I
thought you'd be glad to have me at home."
Aggie turned to him with real concern. "Why, Jimmy," she said,
"what's the matter with you?" She took a step toward him and
anxiously studied his face. "I never heard you talk like that
before. I don't think you're well."
"That's just what I'm telling you," insisted Jimmy vehemently,
excited beyond all reason by receiving even this small bit of
sympathy. "I'm ill," he declared. No sooner had he made the
declaration than he began to believe in it. His doleful
countenance increased Aggie's alarm.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: time of a fresh breeze blowirg about him.
For some seconds he stood staggering in the car, which now swayed
sickeningly, surveying the exasperated crowd below him and trying
to collect his mind. He was extraordinarily astonished at this
run of mishaps. Were the people really so annoyed? Everybody
seemed angry with him. No one seemed interested or amused by his
arrival. A disproportionate amount of the outcry had the flavour
of imprecation--had, indeed a strong flavour of riot. Several
greatly uniformed officials in cocked hats struggled in vain to
control the crowd. Fists and sticks were shaken. And when Bert
saw a man on the outskirts of the crowd run to a haycart and get
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: sepulchre, and lifting up his hands to heaven, the tears
streaming in floods from his eyes, he cried aloud unto God
saying,
"O God, I thank thee, King of glory, alone mighty and immortal,
that thou hast not despised my petition, and hast not held thy
peace at my tears, but hast been pleased to turn this thy
servant, my father, from the way of wickedness, and to draw him
to thyself, the Saviour of all, departing him from the
deceitfulness of idolatry, and granting him to acknowledge thee,
who art the very God and lover of souls. And now, O my Lord and
God, whose ocean of goodness is uncharted, set him in that place
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