| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: husband. James and Andrew listened to his story patiently but
they gave him little encouragement. They had no Savannah
relatives to whom they might look for assistance, for they had
been married when they came to America. And the daughters of
their old friends had long since married and were raising small
children of their own.
"You're not a rich man and you haven't a great family," said
James.
"I've made me money and I can make a great family. And I won't be
marrying just anyone."
"You fly high," observed Andrew, dryly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: part, I only hear your son was run away.
[Exit.]
[Enter HELENA and the two Gentlemen.]
SECOND GENTLEMAN.
Save you, good madam.
HELENA.
Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Do not say so.
COUNTESS.
Think upon patience.--Pray you, gentlemen,--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: -she only smiled at him. The evening had thickened now; the
scattered lamps were red; the Park, all before them, was full of
obscure and ambiguous life; there were other couples on other
benches whom it was impossible not to see, yet at whom it was
impossible to look. "But I've walked so much out of my way with
you only just to show you that--that"--with this she paused; it was
not after all so easy to express--"that anything you may have
thought is perfectly true."
"Oh I've thought a tremendous lot!" her companion laughed. "Do you
mind my smoking?"
"Why should I? You always smoke THERE."
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