| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: As twice below to view the trembling shades;
If you so hard a toil will undertake,
As twice to pass th' innavigable lake;
Receive my counsel. In the neighb'ring grove
There stands a tree; the queen of Stygian Jove
Claims it her own; thick woods and gloomy night
Conceal the happy plant from human sight.
One bough it bears; but (wondrous to behold!)
The ductile rind and leaves of radiant gold:
This from the vulgar branches must be torn,
And to fair Proserpine the present borne,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: ground, 'and disappear along with him.'
'And your whole scheme along with them!' she cried. 'He does not
take his servants when he goes a-hunting: a child could read the
truth. No, no; the plan is idiotic; it must be Ratafia's. But hear
me. You know the Prince worships me?'
'I know,' he said. 'Poor Featherhead, I cross his destiny!'
'Well now,' she continued, 'what if I bring him alone out of the
palace, to some quiet corner of the Park - the Flying Mercury, for
instance? Gordon can be posted in the thicket; the carriage wait
behind the temple; not a cry, not a scuffle, not a footfall; simply,
the Prince vanishes! - What do you say? Am I an able ally? Are my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: within hail of that great and elegant fabric, where she lay
rolling gunwale under and churning the blue sea to snow,
before the bulwarks were lined with the heads of a great
crowd of seamen, black, white, and yellow; and these and the
few who manned the boat began exchanging shouts in some
LINGUA FRANCA incomprehensible to me. All eyes were directed
on the passenger; and once more I saw the negroes toss up
their hands to heaven, but now as if with passionate wonder
and delight.
At the head of the gangway, I was received by another
officer, a gentlemanly man with blond and bushy whiskers; and
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