| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: was unable to wane, forced to stay up yonder, seized and
paralyzed by the severity of the weather. She shed a cold,
mournful light over the world, that dying and wan light which she
gives us every month, at the end of her period.
Karl and I walked side by side, our backs bent, our hands in our
pockets and our guns under our arms. Our boots, which were
wrapped in wool so that we might be able to walk without slipping
on the frozen river, made no sound, and I looked at the white
vapor which our dogs' breath made.
We were soon on the edge of the marsh, and entered one of the
lanes of dry rushes which ran through the low forest.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: By no means. They had hatched a counterplot, and had decided that
what they could not do by moral suasion and statesmanship they
would do by force, and so they sent an order to Yuan Shih-kai,
who as we have said had drilled and was in charge of 12,500 of
the best troops in the empire, urging him to "hasten to the
capital at once, place the Empress Dowager under guard in the
Summer Palace so that she may not be allowed to interfere in the
affairs of the government, and protect him in his reform
measures."
The Emperor knew that nothing could be done without the command
of the army which was largely in the hands of a great
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: in her whom he liked, and smiled very charmingly. He must have
confided in her on one of those long expeditions when people got
separated and walked back alone. He was educating his little sister,
Mrs Ramsay had told her. It was immensely to his credit. Her own idea
of him was grotesque, Lily knew well, stirring the plantains with her
brush. Half one's notions of other people were, after all, grotesque.
They served private purposes of one's own. He did for her instead of a
whipping-boy. She found herself flagellating his lean flanks when she
was out of temper. If she wanted to be serious about him she had to
help herself to Mrs Ramsay's sayings, to look at him through her eyes.
She raised a little mountain for the ants to climb over. She reduced
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