| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: Strether had gathered from him that at the moment of his finding
him in Chad's rooms he hadn't saved from his shipwreck a scrap of
anything but his beautiful intelligence and his confirmed habit of
Paris. He referred to these things with an equal fond familiarity,
and it was sufficiently clear that, as an outfit, they still
served him. They were charming to Strether through the hour spent
at the Louvre, where indeed they figured for him as an unseparated
part of the charged iridescent air, the glamour of the name, the
splendour of the space, the colour of the masters. Yet they were
present too wherever the young man led, and the day after the
visit to the Louvre they hung, in a different walk, about the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: The girl was a little comforted by his wards.
"Sitting up at night is always rather jumpy," she confessed.
"Yes," said Sir James. "We are in the condition of people
holding a seance. Perhaps if a medium were present we might get
some marvellous results."
"Do you believe in spiritualism?" asked Tuppence, opening her
eyes wide.
The lawyer shrugged his shoulders.
"There is some truth in it, without a doubt. But most of the
testimony would not pass muster in the witness-box."
The hours drew on. With the first faint glimmerings of dawn, Sir
Secret Adversary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: bears? no, not I. I will go home & put on a clean
shirt, and then go drown my self.
SEGASTO.
Thou shalt not need; if thou wilt dwell with me,
thou shalt want nothing.
MOUSE.
Shall I not? then here's my hand; I'll dwell with you.
And hark you, sir, now you have entertained me, I
will tell you what I can do: I can keep my tongue
from picking and stealing, and my hands from lying
and slandering, I warrant you, as well as ever you had
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