| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: say, about Caston. Well--when the war came, he talked in a
way that irritated me. He talked like an East Side Annunzio,
about art and war. It made me furious to know it was all talk
and that he didn't mean business. . . . I made him go."
She paused for a moment. "He hated to go."
"Then I relented. Or I missed him and I wanted to be made
love to. Or I really wanted to go on my own account. I
forget. I forget my motives altogether now. That early war
time was a queer time for everyone. A kind of wildness got
into the blood. . . . I threw over Lake. All the time things
had been going on in New York I had still been engaged to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.
So soon was she along, as he was down,
Each leaning on their elbows and their hips: 44
Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,
And 'gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips;
And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,
'If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.' 48
He burns with bashful shame; she with her tears
Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks;
Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs
To fan and blow them dry again she seeks: 52
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: "You'd 'take' it?"
"Why if he doesn't go."
Maria waited. "And who takes it if he does?" she enquired with a
certain grimness of gaiety.
"Well," said Strether, "I think I take, in any event, everything."
"By which I suppose you mean," his companion brought out after a
moment, "that you definitely understand you now lose everything."
He stood before her again. "It does come perhaps to the same
thing. But Chad, now that he has seen, doesn't really want it."
She could believe that, but she made, as always, for clearness.
"Still, what, after all, HAS he seen?"
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