| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: the front steps one day about sundown talking this way,
when out comes his aunt Polly with a letter in her hand
and says:
"Tom, I reckon you've got to pack up and go down
to Arkansaw--your aunt Sally wants you."
I 'most jumped out of my skin for joy. I reckoned Tom
would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you
believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word.
It made me fit to cry to see him act so foolish, with such
a noble chance as this opening up. Why, we might lose it
if he didn't speak up and show he was thankful and grateful.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: LIFE
Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist
Till some resistless hour shall rise and move
Your hearts to wake and hunger after love,
And thirst with passionate longing for the things
That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings.
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