The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: that.
"And I wouldn't, myself. Poultry is one of those things which no
person can get to the bottom of, there is so much of it and such
variety. It is just wings, and wings, and wings, till you are
weary: turkeys, and geese, and bats, and butterflies, and angels,
and grasshoppers, and flying-fish, and - well, there is really no
end to the tribe; it gives me the heaves just to think of it. But
this one hasn't any wings, has he?"
"No."
"Well, then, in my belief he is more likely to be dog than poultry.
I have not heard of poultry that hadn't wings. Wings is the SIGN
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "Are you sure? They don't lie down for me!"
"Well, you shan't lie down for them. You've got to go - that's
what you've got to do," said Morgan.
"And what will become of you?"
"Oh I'm growing up. I shall get off before long. I'll see you
later."
"You had better let me finish you," Pemberton urged, lending
himself to the child's strange superiority.
Morgan stopped in their walk, looking up at him. He had to look up
much less than a couple of years before - he had grown, in his
loose leanness, so long and high. "Finish me?" he echoed.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: of horses feeding down in Lerna Fen, and all that men could
need to make them blest: and yet they were wretched, because
they were jealous of each other. From the moment they were
born they began to quarrel; and when they grew up each tried
to take away the other's share of the kingdom, and keep all
for himself. So first Acrisius drove out Proetus; and he
went across the seas, and brought home a foreign princess for
his wife, and foreign warriors to help him, who were called
Cyclopes; and drove out Acrisius in his turn; and then they
fought a long while up and down the land, till the quarrel
was settled, and Acrisius took Argos and one half the land,
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