| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: faithful to her. It was not easy to estimate exactly the strength
and warmth of one's feelings for a woman till they have run away
with one.
He began to give more time to his men friends. There was Jessop,
at the art school; Swain, who was chemistry demonstrator
at the university; Newton, who was a teacher; besides Edgar and
Miriam's younger brothers. Pleading work, he sketched and studied
with Jessop. He called in the university for Swain, and the two went
"down town" together. Having come home in the train with Newton,
he called and had a game of billiards with him in the Moon
and Stars. If he gave to Miriam the excuse of his men friends,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: he recognized the futility of words, and was resolutely bent
on holding her to her own purpose of behaving as if nothing
had happened. Once more she inwardly accused him of
insensibility, and her imagination was beset by tormenting
visions of his past...Had such things happened to him
before? If the episode had been an isolated accident--"a
moment of folly and madness", as he had called it--she could
understand, or at least begin to understand (for at a
certain point her imagination always turned back); but if it
were a mere link in a chain of similar experiments, the
thought of it dishonoured her whole past...
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: deliberate, "Did you come STRAIGHT HERE from your system?"
"Yes, sir," I says - but I blushed the least little bit in the
world when I said it.
He looked at me very stern, and says -
"That is not true; and this is not the place for prevarication.
You wandered from your course. How did that happen?"
Says I, blushing again -
"I'm sorry, and I take back what I said, and confess. I raced a
little with a comet one day - only just the least little bit - only
the tiniest lit - "
"So - so," says he - and without any sugar in his voice to speak
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