| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "If we can only go all the rest's a detail."
"Talk about it as much as you like, but don't think you can attempt
it. Mr. Moreen would never consent - it would be so VERY hand-to-
mouth," Pemberton's hostess beautifully explained to him. Then to
Morgan she made it clearer: "It would destroy our peace, it would
break our hearts. Now that he's back it will be all the same
again. You'll have your life, your work and your freedom, and
we'll all be happy as we used to be. You'll bloom and grow
perfectly well, and we won't have any more silly experiments, will
we? They're too absurd. It's Mr. Pemberton's place - every one in
his place. You in yours, your papa in his, me in mine - n'est-ce
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Stories From the Old Attic by Robert Harris: king was absolutely unthinkable.
The third reason that the king's advisor was grieved about the
"score ahead and wed" method of selecting the princess' groom was
that the only person in all the realm who could outshoot Sir Bargle
was--Sir Philo.
Prithee, talk not to me about psychic conflict--nay, psychic trauma,
for I have seen it here, and it is not gentle. Sir Philo traced and
retraced many steps around the castle grounds, without thought of
direction or destination, the movement of his feet and the tension
on his face reflecting the turmoil in his soul. At length, in his
anxiety, the brave knight turned to his lady love for succor and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau: the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood shed
when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's
real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an
everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.
I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender,
rather than the seizure of his goods--though both will serve
the same purpose--because they who assert the purest right,
and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State,
commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property.
To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a
slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if
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