| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: their tears over their sad fate they were also grateful
that they had passed from the control of the heartless
King Gos into the more considerate care of King Kaliko.
They were still captives but they believed they would
be happier in the underground caverns of the nomes than
in Regos and Coregos.
Meantime, in the King's royal cavern a great feast
had been spread. King Gos and Queen Cor, having
triumphed in their plot, were so well pleased that they
held high revelry with the jolly Nome King until a late
hour that night. And the next morning, having cautioned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: Roses, kept by the Citizen Ragon and his wife, court perfumers. The
Ragons had been faithful adherents of the Royalist cause; it was
through their means that the Vendean leaders kept up a correspondence
with the Princes and the Royalist Committee in Paris. The abbe, in the
ordinary dress of the time, was standing on the threshold of the shop
--which stood between Saint Roch and the Rue des Frondeurs--when he
saw that the Rue Saint Honore was filled with a crowd and he could not
go out.
"What is the matter?" he asked Madame Ragon.
"Nothing," she said; "it is only the tumbril cart and the executioner
going to the Place Louis XV. Ah! we used to see it often enough last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: his wife. He left sometime after midnight, and Richey and I were
alone.
He drew a chair near the lamp and lighted a cigarette, and for a
time we were silent. I was in the shadow, and I sat back and
watched him. It was not surprising, I thought, that she cared for
him: women had always loved him, perhaps because he always loved
them. There was no disloyalty in the thought: it was the lad's
nature to give and crave affection. Only - I was different. I had
never really cared about a girl before, and my life had been
singularly loveless. I had fought a lonely battle always. Once
before, in college, we had both laid ourselves and our callow
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