| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "Maybe so. But I'm beginning to see the Don's game. And, Miss
Hammond, I--It's awful for me to think what you'd suffer if Don
Carlos got you over the line. I know these low-caste Mexicans.
I've been among the peons--the slaves."
"Stewart, don't let Don Carlos get me," replied Madeline, in
sweet directness.
She saw him shake, saw his throat swell as he swallowed hard, saw
the hard fierceness return to his face.
"I won't. That's why I'm going after him."
"But I forbade you to start a fight deliberately."
"Then I'll go ahead and start one without your permission," he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Left him by no means at his ease.
Once more he weltered in despair,
With hands, through denser-matted hair,
More tightly clenched than then they were.
When, bathed in Dawn of living red,
Majestic frowned the mountain head,
"Tell me my fault," was all he said.
When, at high Noon, the blazing sky
Scorched in his head each haggard eye,
Then keenest rose his weary cry.
And when at Eve the unpitying sun
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Bays and sweet-blushing hyacinths, I keep."
DAMOETAS
"Gay Galatea throws an apple at me,
Then hies to the willows, hoping to be seen."
MENALCAS
"My dear Amyntas comes unasked to me;
Not Delia to my dogs is better known."
DAMOETAS
"Gifts for my love I've found; mine eyes have marked
Where the wood-pigeons build their airy nests."
MENALCAS
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