| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: Henchard returned to the letters, sorting them over with
interest, Farfrae being seated at the other end of the
dining-table. "You don't forget, of course," he resumed,
"that curious chapter in the history of my past which I told
you of, and that you gave me some assistance in? These
letters are, in fact, related to that unhappy business.
Though, thank God, it is all over now."
"What became of the poor woman?" asked Farfrae.
"Luckily she married, and married well," said Henchard. "So
that these reproaches she poured out on me do not now cause
me any twinges, as they might otherwise have done....Just
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: For I will buzz abroad such prophecies
That Edward shall be fearful of his life,
And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.
King Henry and the prince his son are gone;
Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,
Counting myself but bad till I be best.
I'll throw thy body in another room,
And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.
[Exit with the body.]
SCENE 7. London. The Palace.
[KING EDWARD is discovered sitting on his throne; QUEEN ELIZABETH
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: around in my direction as he pointed to where I was now plainly
visible, for the moment that I knew I had been perceived I cast aside
every attempt at stealth and broke into a mad race for the flier.
The two redoubled their efforts at the propeller at which
they were working, and which very evidently was being replaced
after having been removed for some purpose of repair.
They had the thing completed before I had covered half the
distance that lay between me and them, and then both made a rush
for the boarding-ladder.
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