| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: possibilities. He dismissed his cab a block from his own home and
entered his house cautiously.
Muller's lodgings consisted of two large rooms, really much too
large for a lone man who was at home so little. But Muller had
engaged them at first sight, for the apartment possessed one
qualification which was absolutely necessary for him. Its
situation and the arrangement of its doors made it possible for
him to enter and leave his rooms without being seen either by his
own landlady or by the other lodgers in the house. The little
apartment was on the ground floor, and Muller's own rooms had a
separate entrance opening on to the main corridor almost immediately
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: knew was a castle. We crossed broad natural lawns
sparkling with dew, and we moved like spirits, the
cushioned turf giving out no sound of footfall; we
dreamed along through glades in a mist of green light
that got its tint from the sun-drenched roof of leaves
overhead, and by our feet the clearest and coldest of
runlets went frisking and gossiping over its reefs and
making a sort of whispering music, comfortable to hear;
and at times we left the world behind and entered into
the solemn great deeps and rich gloom of the forest,
where furtive wild things whisked and scurried by and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the agent said she was crossing the track to take the up-train to
town when the express struck her."
"Another circle!" I exclaimed. "Then we are just where we
started."
"Not so bad as that, Miss Innes," Riggs said eagerly. "Nina
Carrington came from the town in California where Mr. Armstrong
died. Why was the doctor so afraid of her? The Carrington woman
knew something. I lived with Doctor Walker seven years, and I
know him well. There are few things he is afraid of. I think he
killed Mr. Armstrong out in the west somewhere, that's what I
think. What else he did I don't know--but he dismissed me and
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