| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: The eminence on which the palace was built, and some other spots of
rising ground, were all that the eye could now discover. The herds
and flocks left the pasture, and both the wild beasts and the tame
retreated to the mountains.
This inundation confined all the princes to domestic amusements,
and the attention of Rasselas was particularly seized by a poem
(which Imlac rehearsed) upon the various conditions of humanity.
He commanded the poet to attend him in his apartment, and recite
his verses a second time; then entering into familiar talk, he
thought himself happy in having found a man who knew the world so
well, and could so skilfully paint the scenes of life. He asked a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: desire greatly to bring about a marriage between Mr. Clifford
Wentworth and Miss Elizabeth Acton; but he resolved, on the whole,
to suppress this observation.
CHAPTER IX
It seemed to Robert Acton, after Eugenia had come to his house,
that something had passed between them which made them
a good deal more intimate. It was hard to say exactly what,
except her telling him that she had taken her resolution
with regard to the Prince Adolf; for Madame Munster's visit
had made no difference in their relations. He came to see
her very often; but he had come to see her very often before.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: as though we had piled on a sack of flour. Dinkey,
I had forgotten to state, was a white horse, and
belonged to Wes.
Jenny also was white and belonged to Wes. Her
chief characteristic was her devotion to Dinkey. She
worshiped Dinkey, and seconded her enthusiastically.
Without near the originality of Dinkey, she was yet
a very good and sure pack-horse. The deceiving
part about Jenny was her eye. It was baleful with
the spirit of evil,--snaky and black, and with green
sideways gleams in it. Catching the flash of it, you
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