| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: How deep they were, and what a velvet light
Came out of them when anger or surprise,
Or laughter, or Francesca, made them bright.
No, you will not forget such eyes, I think, --
And you say nothing of them. Very well.
I wonder if all history's worth a wink,
Sometimes, or if my tale be one to tell.
For they began to lose their velvet light;
Their fire grew dead without and small within;
And many of you deplored the needless fight
That somewhere in the dark there must have been.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: the distance.
"David," she said, "if you will just keep near, I will go anywhere and
do anything. The courage of my heart, it is all broken. Do not be
leaving me in this horrible country by myself, and I will do all else."
"Can you start now and march all night?" said I.
"I will do all that you can ask of me," she said, "and never ask you
why. I have been a bad ungrateful girl to you; and do what you please
with me now! And I think Miss Barbara Grant is the best lady in the
world," she added, "and I do not see what she would deny you for at all
events."
This was Greek and Hebrew to me; but I had other matters to consider,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and he was busy with a third that encircled the finger of a
body that lay beneath three others. It would not come off.
He pulled and tugged, and then he drew a knife from his
pocket.
But he did not sever the digit. Instead he shrank back
with a muffled scream of terror. The corpse that he would
have mutilated had staggered suddenly to its feet, flinging
the dead bodies to one side as it rose.
"You fiend!" broke from the lips of the dead man, and
the ghoul turned and fled, gibbering in his fright.
The tramp of soldiers in the street beyond ceased sud-
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