| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: it be before he saw that Gypsy Nan was a fake? I can't let you go
and have an ambulance, say, come and get me, can I, even with the
disguise hidden away? They'd say this is where Gypsy Nan lives.
There's something queer here. Where is Gypsy Nan? I've got to get
away from here - away from Gypsy Nan - don't you understand? It's
death one way; maybe it is the other, maybe it'll finish me to get
out of here, but it's the only thing left to do. I thought some
one, some one that I could trust, never mind who, would have come
to-day, but-but no one came, and - and maybe now it s too late, but
there's just the one chance, and I've got to take it." Gypsy Nan
tore at the shawl around her throat as though it choked her, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: was a mark of perplexity. After dinner I went into my stateroom as
if I meant to take some rest. There we two bent our dark heads
over a half-unrolled chart lying on my bed.
"There," I said. "It's got to be Koh-ring. I've been looking at
it ever since sunrise. It has got two hills and a low point. It
must be inhabited. And on the coast opposite there is what looks
like the mouth of a biggish river - with some town, no doubt, not
far up. It's the best chance for you that I can see."
"Anything. Koh-ring let it be."
He looked thoughtfully at the chart as if surveying chances and
distances from a lofty height - and following with his eyes his own
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: Morning stirs the feet and hands
(Nausicaa and Polypheme),
Gesture of orang-outang
Rises from the sheets in steam.
This withered root of knots of hair
Slitted below and gashed with eyes,
This oval O cropped out with teeth:
The sickle motion from the thighs
Jackknifes upward at the knees
Then straightens out from heel to hip
Pushing the framework of the bed
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