| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "There may have been the devil in my feet,
For down I blundered, like a fugitive,
To find the old room in Eleventh Street.
God save us! -- I came here again to live."
We rose at that, and all the ghosts rose then,
And followed us unseen to his old room.
No longer a good place for living men
We found it, and we shivered in the gloom.
The goods he took away from there were few,
And soon we found ourselves outside once more,
Where now the lamps along the Avenue
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: The last that e'er I took her leave at court,
I saw upon her finger.
BERTRAM.
Hers it was not.
KING.
Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,
While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to it.--
This ring was mine; and when I gave it Helen
I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood
Necessitied to help, that by this token
I would relieve her. Had you that craft to 'reave her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: tower, which stood some way back from the cliff, he found the door
heavily padlocked. Gazing up, he saw six windows, one above the
other at equal distances, all on the cast face - that is, overlooking
the sea. Realising that no satisfaction was to be gained here, he
came away again, still more irritated than before. When' he rejoined
his friend, Nightspore reported that the workshop was also locked.
"Did we, or did we not, receive an invitation?" demanded Maskull
energetically.
"The house is empty," replied Nightspore, biting his nails. "Better
break a window."
"I certainly don't mean to camp out till Krag condescends to come."
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