| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: Miss Tita had none of the pride that makes a person wish
to preserve the look of independence; she did not in the least
pretend that she knew at present what would become of her.
I forebore to touch particularly on that, however, for I certainly
was not prepared to say that I would take charge of her.
I was cautious; not ignobly, I think, for I felt that her
knowledge of life was so small that in her unsophisticated
vision there would be no reason why--since I seemed to pity her--
I should not look after her. She told me how her aunt had died,
very peacefully at the last, and how everything had been done
afterward by the care of her good friends (fortunately, thanks
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: And thought o'ercasts her brow.
She's thinking of one winter's day,
A few short months ago,
Then Emma's bier was borne away
O'er wastes of frozen snow.
She's thinking how that drifted snow
Dissolved in spring's first gleam,
And how her sister's memory now
Fades, even as fades a dream.
The snow will whiten earth again,
But Emma comes no more;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him he looked into the eyes of the King, upon whose
breast his head rested.
Strange vagaries of a disordered brain! Yes it must
have been a very terrible wound that the little old man
of Torn had given him; but why could he not dream
that Bertrade de Montfort held him? And then his eyes
wandered about among the throng of ladies, nobles and
soldiers standing uncovered and with bowed heads
about him. Presently he found her.
"Bertrade!" he whispered.
The girl came and knelt beside him, opposite the
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