| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: We also liked cotton and things to eat, especially cassava
cakes, and we liked a very few parrots. But it was gold
that in chief we wanted. The man who brought the gods
gold might go home with gifts so beautiful that there was
never anything seen like them! Especially is there something
that the gods call ``bells'' that ring and sound in
your hand when you dance! Gold--do you know where
to find it? Another thing! They desire to find a god who
dropped out of the sky a long time ago, and has now a people
and a great, marvelous village. Thinking he might be
here, they have dived down to our land, for they dive in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: very much in love with Liza, and she seems to like him. . . . Of
course, he has no settled position, but that can't be helped.
Please God, in time he will get one. He is of good family and
well off."
"Where did you learn that?"
"He told us so. His father has a large house in Harkov and an
estate in the neighbourhood. In short, Nikolay Stepanovitch, you
absolutely must go to Harkov."
"What for?"
"You will find out all about him there. . . . You know the
professors there; they will help you. I would go myself, but I am
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: couple, rather than parents whose nursery was already a song of three
little voices.
"He has told her," thought Mrs. Davenport at the first sight of them, as
they entered the drawing-room for an afternoon tea. "She does understand
some things."
And when after dinner the ladies had withdrawn to the library, and waited
for the men to finish their cigars, Mrs. Davenport spoke to Ethel. "My
dear, I congratulate you. I saw it at once."
"But he hasn't. Richard hasn't told me anything."
"Ethel! Then what is the matter?"
"I told him something. I told him that if it was going to be any story
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