| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: Early in the morning, before it was quite light, and when nobody was
stirring in the inn, Chanticleer awakened his wife, and, fetching the
egg, they pecked a hole in it, ate it up, and threw the shells into
the fireplace: they then went to the pin and needle, who were fast
asleep, and seizing them by the heads, stuck one into the landlord's
easy chair and the other into his handkerchief; and, having done this,
they crept away as softly as possible. However, the duck, who slept in
the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the
brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.
An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his
handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: She had, first and last, received a great deal of admiration,
and her experience of well-turned compliments was very considerable;
but she knew that she had never been so real a power, never counted
for so much, as now when, for the first time, the standard
of comparison of her little circle was a prey to vagueness.
The sense, indeed, that the good people about her had,
as regards her remarkable self, no standard of comparison
at all gave her a feeling of almost illimitable power.
It was true, as she said to herself, that if for this reason
they would be able to discover nothing against her, so they
would perhaps neglect to perceive some of her superior points;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: when no one could read or write. But that the tales began by
being true any one may well believe who knows how many cannibal
savages there are in the world even now. I think that, if ever
there was an ogre in the world, he must have been very like a
certain person who lived, or was buried, in a cave in the
Neanderthal, between Elberfeld and Dusseldorf, on the Lower Rhine.
The skull and bones which were found there (and which are very
famous now among scientific men) belonged to a personage whom I
should have been very sorry to meet, and still more to let you
meet, in the wild forest; to a savage of enormous strength of limb
(and I suppose of jaw) likewise
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