| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: which no fly ever finds his way out again, and this down the
spider's house, and I the spider who sucks the flies? Come
hither, and let me feast upon you; for it is of no use to run
away, so cunning a web has my father Hephaistos spread for me
when he made these clefts in the mountains, through which no
man finds his way home.'
But Theseus came on steadily, and asked -
'And what is your name among men, bold spider? and where are
your spider's fangs?'
Then the strange man laughed again -
'My name is Periphetes, the son of Hephaistos and Anticleia
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: And will dispatch.
[He seizes her.]
[Enter Pirates.]
FIRST PIRATE.
Hold, villain!
[Leonine runs away.]
SECOND PIRATE.
A prize! a prize!
THIRD PIRATE.
Half-part, mates, half-part,
Comes, let's have her aboard suddenly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: table in an obscure corner. A waiter brought them things in
little glasses, though no order had been given. The woman who
had been Ruby Watson was so silent as to be almost wordless. But
the man talked rapidly. He talked well, too. The same quality
that enabled him, voiceless though he was, to boost a song to
success was making his plea sound plausible in Terry's ears now.
"I've got to go and make up in a few minutes. So get this. I'm
not going to stick down in this basement eating house forever.
I've got too much talent. If I only had a voice--I mean a singing
voice. But I haven't. But then, neither had Georgie Cohan, and
I can't see that it wrecked his life any. Now listen. I've got a
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