| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: Say what we will, you will think yourself ill-treated,
and you will publish your wrongs among your friends.
But we are not afraid of that. Besides, your friends are not
our friends, and it will not matter. Think of us as you please.
I only beg you not to be violent. I have never in my life
been present at a violent scene of any kind, and at my age I
can't be expected to begin."
"Is THAT all you have got to say?" asked Newman, slowly rising
out of his chair. "That's a poor show for a clever lady
like you, marquise. Come, try again."
"My mother goes to the point, with her usual honesty and intrepidity,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Ally of God in the end--
Helper and friend--
Hero and prophet and priest
Out of the beast!
THE NOBLER LESSON
CHRIST was of virgin birth, and, being slain,
The creedists say, He rose from death again.
Oh, futile age-long talk of death and birth!--
His life, that is the one thing wonder-worth;
Not how He came, but how He lived on earth.
For if gods stoop, and with quaint jugglery
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: face of the great North Hall. Within, that part of the building
was alive with the scraping of the carpenters' saws, the
clattering of lumber, and the rapping and banging of hammers.
The North Hall had been assigned as the lodging place for the
King and his court, and St. George's Hall (as the older building
adjoining it was called) had been set apart as the lodging of the
Comte de Vermoise and the knights and gentlemen attendant upon
him.
The great North Hall had been very much altered and changed for
the accommodation of the King and his people; a beautiful gallery
of carved wood-work had been built within and across the south
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