| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: NED. [Taking her hand, tenderly.] I little dreamed when I came
down here visiting that I was to meet my destiny in--[Abruptly
releases LORETTA's hand.]
[MAID enters from left with tray.]
[LORETTA glances into tray and discovers that it is empty. She
looks inquiringly at MAID.]
MAID. A gentleman to see you. He hasn't any card. He said for
me to tell you that it was Billy.
LORETTA. [Starting, looking with dismay and appeal to NED.] Oh!
. . . Ned!
NED [Gracefully and courteously, rising to his feet and preparing
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: before the Pug's door. It was the White Moll now.
From under the door, at the ill-fitting threshold, there showed a
thin line of light. Rhoda Gray, with her ear against the door panel,
listened. There was no sound of voices from within. Pinkie Bonn,
then, was still alone, and still waiting for the Pug. She glanced
sharply around her. There was only darkness. Her gloved right hand
was hidden in the folds of her skirt; she raised her left hand and
knocked softly upon the door-two raps, one rap, two raps. She
repeated it. And as it had been with Shluker, so it was now with
her. A footstep crossed the floor within, the key turned in the
lock, and the door was flung open.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Only by such caution as you would use against the devil,"
answered Wayland. "Let my lord's clerk of the kitchen kill his
lord's meat himself, and dress it himself, using no spice but
what he procures from the surest hands. Let the sewer serve it
up himself, and let the master of my lord's household see that
both clerk and sewer taste the dishes which the one dresses and
the other serves. Let my lord use no perfumes which come not
from well accredited persons; no unguents--no pomades. Let him,
on no account, drink with strangers, or eat fruit with them,
either in the way of nooning or otherwise. Especially, let him
observe such caution if he goes to Kenilworth--the excuse of his
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