| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: take place till the morrow; and wishing to leave the field
open to the contestants he set out early on a solitary walk.
It was nearly luncheon-time when he returned from it and
came upon Anna just emerging from the house. She had on her
hat and jacket and was apparently coming forth to seek him,
for she said at once: "Madame de Chantelle wants you to go
up to her."
"To go up to her? Now?"
"That's the message she sent. She appears to rely on you to
do something." She added with a smile: "Whatever it is,
let's have it over!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: had stolen the prize from beneath his very nose.
Phaidor's pleasure had been due to her realization of what
this last cruel blow would mean to me, as well as to a partial
satisfaction of her jealous hatred for the Princess of Helium.
My first thought was to look beyond the draperies at the back
of the throne, for there it was that I had seen Thurid. With a
single jerk I tore the priceless stuff from its fastenings, and
there before me was revealed a narrow doorway behind the throne.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: Stepan always told every one he met about his
last murder, and how it had impressed him.
Far from shrieking, or anything of that
kind," he said to Prokofy, "she did not move.
'Kill me! There I am,' she said. 'But it is not
my soul you destroy, it is your own.'"
"Well, of course, it is very dreadful to kill. I
had one day to slaughter a sheep, and even that
made me half mad. I have not destroyed any liv-
ing soul; why then do those villains kill me? I
have done no harm to anybody . . ."
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