The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: him to the ground; and he stammered vague and lying words.
'That is all right,' cried Zero - 'that is as it should be -
say no more! I had a vague alarm; I feared you had deserted
me; but I now own that fear to have been unworthy, and
apologise. To doubt of your forgiveness were to repeat my
sin. Come, then; dinner waits; join me again and tell me
your adventures of the night.'
Kindness still sealed the lips of Somerset; and he suffered
himself once more to be set down to table with his innocent
and criminal acquaintance. Once more, the plotter plunged up
to the neck in damaging disclosures: now it would be the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: A Bell rings.
I goe, and it is done: the Bell inuites me.
Heare it not, Duncan, for it is a Knell,
That summons thee to Heauen, or to Hell.
Enter.
Scena Secunda.
Enter Lady.
La. That which hath made the[m] drunk, hath made me bold:
What hath quench'd them, hath giuen me fire.
Hearke, peace: it was the Owle that shriek'd,
The fatall Bell-man, which giues the stern'st good-night.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: is one of the things I am in revolt against. . . .
Money is death and damnation to the free spirit!"
Papa said he was sorry to hear that; he said one
of his companies needed an ad writer, and he didn't
have any objection to hiring a free spirit with a
punch, but he couldn't consider getting anyone to
write ads that hated money, for there was a salary
attached to the job.
And Fothy said: "You are trying to bribe me!
Capitalism is casting its net over me! You are try-
ing to make me a serf: trying to silence a Free
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