| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde: By weed and worm, left to the stormy play
Of wind and beating snow, or renovated
By more destructful hands: Time's worst decay
Will wreathe its ruins with some loveliness,
But these new Vandals can but make a rain-proof barrenness.
Where is that Art which bade the Angels sing
Through Lincoln's lofty choir, till the air
Seems from such marble harmonies to ring
With sweeter song than common lips can dare
To draw from actual reed? ah! where is now
The cunning hand which made the flowering hawthorn branches bow
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "and I must do your bidding, though indeed I am glad to do
it under any circumstances. The man whose metal you carry
was young, but he was a great warrior, and had by his
promotions and kills won his way close to the rank of Tars
Tarkas, who, as you know, is second to Lorquas Ptomel only.
You are eleventh, there are but ten chieftains in this
community who rank you in prowess."
"And if I should kill Lorquas Ptomel?" I asked.
"You would be first, John Carter; but you may only win
that honor by the will of the entire council that Lorquas
Ptomel meet you in combat, or should he attack you, you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "How do you mean, not for you?"
"Oh it's all over - she's for you, if you like."
"Ah much less!" said Paul. "She's not for a dingy little man of
letters; she's for the world, the bright rich world of bribes and
rewards. And the world will take hold of her - it will carry her
away."
"It will try - but it's just a case in which there may be a fight.
It would be worth fighting, for a man who had it in him, with youth
and talent on his side."
These words rang not a little in Paul Overt's consciousness - they
held him briefly silent. "It's a wonder she has remained as she
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