| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time
Of thy nativity! I would the milk
Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,
Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!
Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,
I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!
Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?
O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good.
[Exit.]
YORK.
Take her away; for she hath lived too long,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: constantly resisting, that he was confident of some impending
catastrophe. Consequently, as soon as he heard from Alessandro of the
negotiation for Catherine's marriage with the son of Francois I., the
final arrangements for which were to be made at Livorno, where the
negotiators had appointed to meet, he formed the plan of going to
France, and attaching himself to the fortunes of his niece, who needed
a guardian.
Alessandro, delighted to rid himself of a man so unaccommodating in
the affairs of Florence, furthered a plan which relieved him of one
murder at least, and advised Strozzi to put himself at the head of
Catherine's household. In order to dazzle the eyes of France the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: The Rio Grande and its tributaries for the most of their length
in Texas ran between wide, low, flat lands covered by a dense
growth of willow. Cottonwood, mesquite, prickly pear, and other
growths mingled with the willow, and altogether they made a
matted, tangled copse, a thicket that an inexperienced man
would have considered impenetrable. From above, these wild
brakes looked green and red; from the inside they were gray and
yellow--a striped wall. Trails and glades were scarce. There
were a few deer-runways and sometimes little paths made by
peccaries--the jabali, or wild pigs, of Mexico. The ground was
clay and unusually dry, sometimes baked so hard that it left no
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