| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: Into a darkened room, and drawn the curtain,
And with dull eyes and wearied from some dear
And worshipped body risen, they for certain
Will never know of what I try to sing,
How long the last kiss was, how fond and late his lingering.
The moon was girdled with a crystal rim,
The sign which shipmen say is ominous
Of wrath in heaven, the wan stars were dim,
And the low lightening east was tremulous
With the faint fluttering wings of flying dawn,
Ere from the silent sombre shrine his lover had withdrawn.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: desperate in his need, the problem would have appeared insoluble.
But that was by no means the view of the cheery and resourceful
grocer. He had a solution ready, well thought out and bearing to
his mind the stamp of probability. He would make a
fictitious payment of the purchase-money to Mme. de Lamotte. She
would then disappear, taking her son with her. Her indiscretion
in having been the mistress of de Lamotte before she became his
wife, would lend colour to his story that she had gone off with a
former lover, taking with her the money which Derues had paid her
for Buisson-Souef. He would then produce the necessary documents
proving the payment of the purchase-money, and Buisson-Souef
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: talked, and pulled at the big huqas (the water-pipes) till far
into the night. They told wonderful tales of gods and men and
ghosts; and Buldeo told even more wonderful ones of the ways of
beasts in the jungle, till the eyes of the children sitting
outside the circle bulged out of their heads. Most of the tales
were about animals, for the jungle was always at their door. The
deer and the wild pig grubbed up their crops, and now and again
the tiger carried off a man at twilight, within sight of the
village gates.
Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were
talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was
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