| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: "And me? Where do I come in?"
"I suppose you come in here."
"Well, but what are you going to do?"
"Do!" I said with the exasperation of the situation growing upon
me. "What do you want me to do?"
As I look back upon all that time--across a gulf of fifteen
active years--I find I see it with an understanding judgment. I
see it as if it were the business of some one else--indeed of two
other people--intimately known yet judged without passion. I see
now that this shock, this sudden immense disillusionment, did in
real fact bring out a mind and soul in Marion; that for the first
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: We know, for we have found a secret unknown
to all our brothers.
We know not what this power is nor
whence it comes. But we know its nature,
we have watched it and worked with it.
We saw it first two years ago. One night,
we were cutting open the body of a dead
frog when we saw its leg jerking. It was
dead, yet it moved. Some power unknown
to men was making it move. We could not
understand it. Then, after many tests,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: These griefes, these woes, these sorrowes make me old:
Shame come to Romeo
Iul. Blister'd be thy tongue
For such a wish, he was not borne to shame:
Vpon his brow shame is asham'd to sit;
For 'tis a throane where Honour may be Crown'd
Sole Monarch of the vniuersall earth:
O what a beast was I to chide him?
Nur. Will you speake well of him,
That kil'd your Cozen?
Iul. Shall I speake ill of him that is my husband?
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