| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: Then happened a singular thing.
Out over the table billowed a sort of yellowish-green cloud--
an oily vapor--and an inspiration, it was nothing less,
born of a memory and of some words of my beautiful visitor,
came to me.
"RUN, SMITH!" I screamed. "The door! the door, for your life!
Fu-Manchu sent that box!" I threw my arms round him.
As he bent forward the moving vapor rose almost to his nostrils.
I dragged him back and all but pitched him out on to the landing.
We entered my bedroom, and there, as I turned on the light,
I saw that Smith's tanned face was unusually drawn,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: to end this, for . . ."
"Hold your tongue!" the father shouted at him, and so loudly that
the spectacles fell off his nose; "hold your tongue!"
"I used . . . I used to be able to put up with such scenes, but .
. . but now I have got out of the way of it. Do you understand? I
have got out of the way of it!"
"Hold your tongue!" cried the father, and he stamped with his
feet. "You must listen to what I say! I shall say what I like,
and you hold your tongue. At your age I was earning my living,
while you . . . Do you know what you cost me, you scoundrel? I'll
turn you out! Wastrel!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the interest of all Petersburg. The story was this: Some officers
were eating oysters and, as usual, drinking very much, when one
of them said something ill-natured about the regiment to which
Kaminski belonged, and Kaminski called him a liar. The other hit
Kaminski. The next day they fought. Kaminski was wounded in the
stomach and died two hours later. The murderer and the seconds
were arrested, but it was said that though they were arrested and
in the guardhouse they would be set free in a fortnight.
From the Senate Nekhludoff drove to see an influential member of
the petition Committee, Baron Vorobioff, who lived in a splendid
house belonging to the Crown. The doorkeeper told Nekhludoff in a
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