| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: would never be another after today. She cast about for some
pretext to lure him even a little nearer to the hills.
"It is very little that I ask," she said. "Tonight you will want
me to sing to you. It will be the last time, if you do not let me
go and see what those kaldanes are doing I shall never sing to
you again."
Ghek hesitated. "I will hold you by the arm all the time, then,"
he said.
"Why, of course, if you wish," she assented. "Come!"
The two moved toward the workers and the hills. The little party
was digging tubers from the ground. She had noted this and that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1984 by George Orwell: he had other things to preoccupy him. It was during the moment of disorder
while the posters were being torn down that a man whose face he did not
see had tapped him on the shoulder and said, 'Excuse me, I think you've
dropped your brief-case.' He took the brief-case abstractedly, without
speaking. He knew that it would be days before he had an opportunity to
look inside it. The instant that the demonstration was over he went
straight to the Ministry of Truth, though the time was now nearly
twenty-three hours. The entire staff of the Ministry had done likewise.
The orders already issuing from the telescreen, recalling them to their
posts, were hardly necessary.
Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: happy circumstances with which her mind had invested the friend of
Fritz and Gussy. He was a very happy circumstance indeed as, with
his cigarette in his lips and his broken familiar talk caught by
his companion, he put down the half-dozen telegrams it would take
them together several minutes to dispatch. And here it occurred,
oddly enough, that if, shortly before the girl's interest in his
companion had sharpened her sense for the messages then
transmitted, her immediate vision of himself had the effect, while
she counted his seventy words, of preventing intelligibility. His
words were mere numbers, they told her nothing whatever; and after
he had gone she was in possession of no name, of no address, of no
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