| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: such ecstasy the benefit of his not being able to think she passed
often. She jumped in two seconds to the determination that he
should even suppose it to be the very first time and the very
oddest chance: this was while she still wondered if he would
identify or notice her. His original attention had not, she
instinctively knew, been for the young woman at Cocker's; it had
only been for any young woman who might advance to the tune of her
not troubling the quiet air, and in fact the poetic hour, with
ugliness. Ah but then, and just as she had reached the door, came
his second observation, a long light reach with which, visibly and
quite amusedly, he recalled and placed her. They were on different
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Then, Salisbury, say whether thou art bound.
SALISBURY.
To Callice, where my liege, king Edward, is.
KING JOHN.
To Callice, Salisbury? Then, to Callice pack,
And bid the king prepare a noble grave,
To put his princely son, black Edward, in.
And as thou travelst westward from this place,
Some two leagues hence there is a lofty hill,
Whose top seems topless, for the embracing sky
Doth hide his high head in her azure bosom;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: and couldn't see no chance anywheres. But by and by I had
a glimpse of something that set me thinking--just a little
wee glimpse--only that, and not enough to make sure;
but it set me thinking hard--and WATCHING, when I was
only letting on to think; and by and by, sure enough,
when Uncle Silas was piling out that stuff about HIM
killing Jubiter Dunlap, I catched that glimpse again,
and this time I jumped up and shut down the proceedings,
because I KNOWED Jubiter Dunlap was a-setting here before me.
I knowed him by a thing which I seen him do--and I
remembered it. I'd seen him do it when I was here a
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