| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: his fellows. The boy with the billiard ball said that he had never
seen it in his life before, and hazarded the suggestion that it had
got into his box through some mysterious and occultly evil agency.
So far as he was concerned it might have dropped down from heaven
for all he knew how it got there. To the cooks and boats'-crews of
every vessel that had dropped anchor off Berande in the past
several years were ascribed the arrival of scores of the stolen
articles and of the major portion of the ammunition. There was no
tracing the truth in any of it, though it was without doubt that
the unidentified weapons and unfamiliar cartridges had come ashore
off visiting craft.
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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: Being no more then his. None here speake for 'em,
For, ere the Sun set, both shall sleepe for ever.
HIPPOLITA.
Alas the pitty! now or never, Sister,
Speake, not to be denide; That face of yours
Will beare the curses else of after ages
For these lost Cosens.
EMILIA.
In my face, deare Sister,
I finde no anger to 'em, nor no ruyn;
The misadventure of their owne eyes kill 'em;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: of herself. The Colonel, interpreting to his own advantage the
embarrassment evident in the Countess' manner and speech, became more
ardent and pressing. The old blase diplomates, amusing themselves by
watching the play of faces, had never found so many intrigues at once
to watch or guess at. The passions agitating the two couples were to
be seen with variations at every step in the crowded rooms, and
reflected with different shades in other countenances. The spectacle
of so many vivid passions, of all these lovers' quarrels, these
pleasing revenges, these cruel favors, these flaming glances, of all
this ardent life diffused around them, only made them feel their
impotence more keenly.
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