| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Turne giddie, and be holpe by backward turning:
One desparate greefe, cures with anothers languish:
Take thou some new infection to the eye,
And the rank poyson of the old wil die
Rom. Your Plantan leafe is excellent for that
Ben. For what I pray thee?
Rom. For your broken shin
Ben. Why Romeo art thou mad?
Rom. Not mad, but bound more then a mad man is:
Shut vp in prison, kept without my foode,
Whipt and tormented: and Godden good fellow,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: scene better than many in her ha'penny novels, this going to him in
the dusk of evening at Park Chambers and letting him at last have
it. "I know too much about a certain person now not to put it to
you--excuse my being so lurid--that it's quite worth your while to
buy me off. Come, therefore; buy me!" There was a point indeed at
which such flights had to drop again--the point of an unreadiness
to name, when it came to that, the purchasing medium. It wouldn't
certainly be anything so gross as money, and the matter accordingly
remained rather vague, all the more that SHE was not a bad girl.
It wasn't for any such reason as might have aggravated a mere minx
that she often hoped he would again bring Cissy. The difficulty of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: that to which I am hastening; and even when it seems, as now, to
lead me to the brink of the grave, and bid me gaze on it, I do
not love that it should be dispelled. It soothes my imagination,
without influencing my reason or conduct."
"I profess, my good lady," replied I, "that had any one but you
made such a declaration, I should have thought it as capricious
as that of the clergyman, who, without vindicating his false
reading, preferred, from habit's sake, his old Mumpsimus to the
modern Sumpsimus."
"Well," answered my aunt, "I must explain my inconsistency in
this particular by comparing it to another. I am, as you know, a
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