| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is
certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe
that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from
the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr.
Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation
between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart
warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so
suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers
sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in
his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
'Mr. Heathcliff?' I said.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: I fell into a pit of thought. I did not remark at first the
change that was creeping over his face. He lay back on his
pillow, made a faint zzzing sound that ceased, and presently and
quite quietly he died--greatly comforted by my assurance. I do
not know when he died. His hand relaxed insensibly. Suddenly,
with a start, with a shock, I found that his mouth had fallen
open, and that he was dead....
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It was dark night when I left his deathbed and went back to my
own inn down the straggling street of Luzon.
That return to my inn sticks in my memory also as a thing apart,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: the log stable. The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow
squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced
with split-oak rails. The orchard was cleared of underbrush and
only daisies grew beneath the long rows of trees. The sun picked
out with faint glistening the apples and the furred pink peaches
half hidden in the green leaves. Beyond lay the curving rows of
cotton, still and green under the gold of the new sky. The ducks
and chickens were waddling and strutting off toward the fields, for
under the bushes in the soft plowed earth were found the choicest
worms and slugs.
Scarlett's heart swelled with affection and gratitude to Will who
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