| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: in the world but her own if that fact continued to be enough for
her. It was of course not enough just in itself; what it had taken
on to make it so was the extraordinary possession of the elements
of his life that memory and attention had at last given her. There
came a day when this possession on the girl's part actually seemed
to enjoy between them, while their eyes met, a tacit recognition
that was half a joke and half a deep solemnity. He bade her good
morning always now; he often quite raised his hat to her. He
passed a remark when there was time or room, and once she went so
far as to say to him that she hadn't seen him for "ages." "Ages"
was the word she consciously and carefully, though a trifle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: and almost as undrinkable as if it had been made in an
American hotel. The milk used for it is what the French
call "Christian" milk--milk which has been baptized.
After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee,"
one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins
to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted
layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream,
after all, and a thing which never existed.
Next comes the European bread--fair enough, good enough,
after a fashion, but cold; cold and tough, and unsympathetic;
and never any change, never any variety--always the same
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs: who was continually measuring and weighing Number One
and his companions, the while he scrutinized them with
those strange, glittering eyes that frightened one even
more than the cruel lash of the bull whip.
Number One lurched forward, his arms outstretched
toward the horror stricken girl. Virginia tried to cry
out again--she tried to turn and run; but the horror of
her impending fate and the terror that those awful
features induced left her paralyzed and helpless.
The thing was almost upon her now. The mouth was wide
in a hideous attempt to smile. The great hands would
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