| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: well! cried I, as the coachman turn'd in at the gates, I find I
shall do very well: and by the time he had wheel'd round the court,
and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the better
for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a victim
to justice, who was to part with life upon the top most, - nor did
I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do when I
fly up, Eliza! to thee to meet it.
As I entered the door of the saloon I was met by a person, who
possibly might be the MAITRE D'HOTEL, but had more the air of one
of the under secretaries, who told me the Duc de C- was busy. - I
am utterly ignorant, said I, of the forms of obtaining an audience,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: storm should happen; for many people had told him it would
certainly fall if it came to blow a little harder than ordinary.
But he happened at last to be in it once too often--namely, when
that dreadful tempest blew, November 27, 1703. This tempest began
on the Wednesday before, and blew with such violence, and shook the
lighthouse so much, that, as they told me there, Mr. Winstanley
would fain have been on shore, and made signals for help; but no
boats durst go off to him; and, to finish the tragedy, on the
Friday, November 26, when the tempest was so redoubled that it
became a terror to the whole nation, the first sight there seaward
that the people of Plymouth were presented with in the morning
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Said he, 'Help me, for they call me liar!'
And we inspired him, 'Make the ark under our eyes and inspiration;
and when the oven boils over, conduct into it of every kind two,
with thy family, except him of them against whom the word "has passed;
and do not address me for those who do wrong, verily, they are to be
drowned!
'But when thou art settled, thou and those with thee in the ark,
say, "Praise belongs to God, who saved us from the unjust people!"
'And say, "My Lord! make me to alight in a blessed
alighting-place, for Thou art the best of those who cause men to
alight!"' Verily, in that this is a sign, and, verily, we were
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