| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: I got up quietly, and pulling aside the blind, looked out.
It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light
over the sea and sky, merged together in one great silent mystery,
was beautiful beyond words. Between me and the moonlight flitted
a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.
Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose,
frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour
towards the abbey. When I came back from the window
Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully.
She did not stir again all night.
14 August.--On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: Having long observed and lamented these, and a hundred other
abuses of this art, too tedious to repeat, I resolved to proceed
in a new way, which I doubt not will be to the general
satisfaction of the kingdom: I can this year produce but a
specimen of what I design for the future; having employ'd most
part of my time in adjusting and correcting the calculations I
made some years past, because I would offer nothing to the world
of which I am not as fully satisfied, as that I am now alive. For
these two last years I have not failed in above one or two
particulars, and those of no very great moment. I exactly
foretold the miscarriage at Toulon, with all its particulars; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: other pattered in and out of the water, filling a small bucket. They were
the Trout boys, Pip and Rags. But Pip was so busy digging and Rags was so
busy helping that they didn't see their little cousins until they were
quite close.
"Look!" said Pip. "Look what I've discovered." And he showed them an old
wet, squashed-looking boot. The three little girls stared.
"Whatever are you going to do with it?" asked Kezia.
"Keep it, of course!" Pip was very scornful. "It's a find--see?"
Yes, Kezia saw that. All the same...
"There's lots of things buried in the sand," explained Pip. "They get
chucked up from wrecks. Treasure. Why--you might find--"
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