| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: going to their clubs and dining out with ministers, think and behave.
She had more than once played the part of ambassador between Lady
Otway and her children. That poor lady, for instance, consulted her
for advice when, one day, she opened Cassandra's bedroom door on a
mission of discovery, and found the ceiling hung with mulberry-leaves,
the windows blocked with cages, and the tables stacked with home-made
machines for the manufacture of silk dresses.
"I wish you could help her to take an interest in something that other
people are interested in, Katharine," she observed, rather
plaintively, detailing her grievances. "It's all Henry's doing, you
know, giving up her parties and taking to these nasty insects. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: had no way of telling friend or foe except by feeling
the noses of 'em. I brought along me last winter
overcoat, me toothbrush, some quinine pills and the
red quilt off the bed in me flat. Three times during
the night somebody rolled on me quilt and stuck his
knees against the Adam's apple of me. And three
times I judged his character by running me hand over
his face, and three times I rose up and kicked the in-
truder down the hill to the gravelly walk below. And
then some one with a flavor of Kelly's whiskey snug-
gled up to me, and I found his nose turned up the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: In response to her call I obtained my first sight of a new
Martian wonder. It waddled in on its ten short legs, and
squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy. The
thing was about the size of a Shetland pony, but its head bore
a slight resemblance to that of a frog, except that the jaws
were equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks.
CHAPTER V
I ELUDE MY WATCH DOG
Sola stared into the brute's wicked-looking eyes, muttered a
word or two of command, pointed to me, and left the chamber.
I could not but wonder what this ferocious-looking monstrosity
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