| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: discovery that they had a method. These little creatures,
pitched upward into experience on the tossing waves of their
parents' agitated lives, had managed to establish a rough-and-
ready system of self-government. Junie, the eldest (the one who
already chose her mother's hats, and tried to put order in her
wardrobe) was the recognized head of the state. At twelve she
knew lots of things which her mother had never thoroughly
learned, and Susy, her temporary mother, had never even guessed
at: she spoke with authority on all vital subjects, from
castor-oil to flannel under-clothes, from the fair sharing of
stamps or marbles to the number of helpings of rice-pudding or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: dare this with him; but she was not afraid to go down into the
town to Freda. And down she went, in the bright light of day, to
the house of the dancer. She was above silly tongues, as was her
husband, the captain. She wished to see this woman and to speak
with her, nor was she aware of any reason why she should not. So
she stood in the snow at the Greek girl's door, with the frost at
sixty below, and parleyed with the waiting-maid for a full five
minutes. She had also the pleasure of being turned away from that
door, and of going back up the hill, wroth at heart for the
indignity which had been put upon her. "Who was this woman that
she should refuse to see her?" she asked herself. One would think
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: her head. I was rewarded with a glance in which
the most delightful fury sparkled. About dinner-
time, I ordered my Circassian horse, covered with
that very rug, purposely to be led past her
windows. Werner was with the princesses at the
time, and told me that the effect of the scene
was most dramatic. Princess Mary wishes to
preach a crusade against me, and I have even
noticed that, already, two of the aides-de-camp
salute me very coldly, when they are in her pre-
sence -- they dine with me every day, however.
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