| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: There were moments when I reeled in my saddle, but for the greater while I
stood my pain and weariness well enough. Some time in the afternoon a
shrill whistle ahead attracted my attention. I made out two horsemen
waiting on the trail.
"Huh! about time!" growled Bill. "Hyar's Buell an' Herky-Jerky."
As we approached I saw Buell, and the fellow with the queer name turned out
to be no other than the absent man I had been wondering about. He had been
dispatched to fetch the lumberman.
Buell was superbly mounted on a sleek bay, and he looked very much the same
jovial fellow I had met on the train. He grinned at the disfigured men.
"Take it from me, you fellers wouldn't look any worse bunged up if you'd
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: This man, whose trade is death, hath courtesies
More than the others.
HEADSMAN
Why, God love you, sir,
I'll do you your last service on this earth.
GUIDO
My good Lord Cardinal, in a Christian land,
With Lord Christ's face of mercy looking down
From the high seat of Judgment, shall a man
Die unabsolved, unshrived? And if not so,
May I not tell this dreadful tale of sin,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: THE MAN. You speak now as Ben does.
THE LADY. And who, pray, is Ben?
THE MAN. A learned bricklayer who thinks that the sky is at the top
of his ladder, and so takes it on him to rebuke me for flying. I tell
you there is no word yet coined and no melody yet sung that is
extravagant and majestical enough for the glory that lovely words can
reveal. It is heresy to deny it: have you not been taught that in
the beginning was the Word? that the Word was with God? nay, that the
Word was God?
THE LADY. Beware, fellow, how you presume to speak of holy things.
The Queen is the head of the Church.
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