| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: his life had been comparable. It had been the theory of many
superficially-judging persons, he knew, that he was wasting that
life in a surrender to sensations, but he had tasted of no pleasure
so fine as his actual tension, had been introduced to no sport that
demanded at once the patience and the nerve of this stalking of a
creature more subtle, yet at bay perhaps more formidable, than any
beast of the forest. The terms, the comparisons, the very
practices of the chase positively came again into play; there were
even moments when passages of his occasional experience as a
sportsman, stirred memories, from his younger time, of moor and
mountain and desert, revived for him - and to the increase of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: "Picciola." It was of course the law of the place that they were
never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but
this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own
part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game. Both
her companions, for that matter, made no secret of the number of
favourites they had among the ladies; sweet familiarities in spite
of which she had repeatedly caught each of them in stupidities and
mistakes, confusions of identity and lapses of observation that
never failed to remind her how the cleverness of men ends where the
cleverness of women begins. "Marguerite, Regent Street. Try on at
six. All Spanish lace. Pearls. The full length." That was the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: privileges. I dreaded murmurs from this quarter. It is
difficult, too, for a slavemaster to believe that slaves escaping
have not been aided in their flight by some one of their fellow
slaves. When, therefore, a slave is missing, every slave on the
place is closely examined as to his knowledge of the undertaking;
and they are sometimes even tortured, to make them disclose what
they are suspected of knowing of such escape.
Our anxiety grew more and more intense, as the time of our
intended departure for the north drew nigh. It was truly felt to
be a matter of life and death with us; and we fully intended to
_fight_ as well as _run_, if necessity should occur for that
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