| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
To my amazement I found the sides of the pit, that I had
thought smooth, lined with shelves, upon which were the most
delicious viands and liquid refreshments that Okar afforded.
With an exclamation of delight I sprang forward to partake of
some of the welcome food, but ere ever I reached it the light
was extinguished, and, though I groped my way about the chamber,
my hands came in contact with nothing beside the smooth, hard wall
that I had felt on my first examination of my prison.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "I can't."
"If a man loves a woman he can make her do anything--"
"But I don't love her like that," said Prothero, shrill with anger.
"I tell you I don't love her like that."
Then he lunged into further deeps. "It's the other men," he said,
"it's the things that have been. Don't you understand? Can't you
understand? The memories--she must have memories--they come between
us. It's something deeper than reason. It's in one's spine and
under one's nails. One could do anything, I perceive, for one's
very own woman. . . ."
"MAKE her your very own woman, said the exponent of heroic love.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: written, and as to whom it had at once been clear to her that
nothing his pen had produced, or might hereafter set down, would
put him in a position to offer his wife anything more costly
than a row-boat.
"His wife! As if he could ever have one! For he's not the kind
to marry for a yacht either." In spite of her past, Susy had
preserved enough inner independence to detect the latent signs
of it in others, and also to ascribe it impulsively to those of
the opposite sex who happened to interest her. She had a
natural contempt for people who gloried in what they need only
have endured. She herself meant eventually to marry, because
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