| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: revolver was not! Her brain harked back in lightning flashes over
the events of the preceding night. She must have lost it somewhere,
then. Where? She had had it in the automobile, that she knew
positively; but after that she did not remember, unless - yes, it
must have been that! When she had jumped from the car and flung
herself down at the roadside! It must have fallen out of her
pocket then.
Her heart seemed to stand still. Suppose they had found it! They
would certainly recognize it as belonging to Gypsy Nan! They were
not fools. The deduction would be obvious - the identity of the
White Moll would be solved. Was that why no one had apparently
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: of the country round; all, both young and old, have come to a
fete which is to be held in this town tomorrow; therefore the
houses are so full. When they shall all have gathered, there
will be a great stir to-morrow; for in the presence of all the
people there will be set upon a silver perch a sparrow-hawk of
five or six moultings--the best you can imagine. Whoever
wishes to gain the hawk must have a mistress who is fair,
prudent, and courteous. And if there be a knight so bold as to
wish to defend the worth and the name of the fairest in his eyes,
he will cause his mistress to step forward and lift the hawk from
the perch, if no one dares to interpose. This is the custom they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 19: 23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.
Isaiah 19: 24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;
Isaiah 19: 25 for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance.'
Isaiah 20: 1 In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
Isaiah 20: 2 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20: 3 And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia,
Isaiah 20: 4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 20: 5 And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
Isaiah 20: 6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape? 
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