| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: divinely happy.
After a while, the bride communicated to her husband the tidings
that she was expecting a child. Then it seemed to George that
the cup of his earthly bliss was full. His ailment had slipped
far into the background of his thoughts, like an evil dream which
he had forgotten. He put away the medicines in the bottom of his
trunk and dismissed the whole matter from his mind. Henriette
was well--a very picture of health, as every one agreed. The
doctor had never seen a more promising young mother, he declared,
and Madame Dupont, the elder, bloomed with fresh life and joy as
she attended her daughter-in-law.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato: Well, he said, then I should like to know whether you agree with me in the
next step; for I cannot help thinking, if there be anything beautiful other
than absolute beauty should there be such, that it can be beautiful only in
as far as it partakes of absolute beauty--and I should say the same of
everything. Do you agree in this notion of the cause?
Yes, he said, I agree.
He proceeded: I know nothing and can understand nothing of any other of
those wise causes which are alleged; and if a person says to me that the
bloom of colour, or form, or any such thing is a source of beauty, I leave
all that, which is only confusing to me, and simply and singly, and perhaps
foolishly, hold and am assured in my own mind that nothing makes a thing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: and her sisters were shutting windows and crying
out to her. Annie deserted her post and fled before
the wind, her pink skirts lashing her heels, her hair
dripping.
When she entered the sitting-room her sisters,
Imogen, Eliza, Jane, and Susan, were all there; also
her father, Silas, tall and gaunt and gray. To the
Hempsteads a thunder-storm partook of the nature
of a religious ceremony. The family gathered to-
gether, and it was understood that they were all
offering prayer and recognizing God as present on
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