| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: He could not bear it--that breast which was warm and which cradled
him without taking the burden of him. So much he wanted to rest
on her that the feint of rest only tortured him. He drew away.
"And without marriage we can do nothing?" he asked.
His mouth was lifted from his teeth with pain. She put her
little finger between her lips.
"No," she said, low and like the toll of a bell. "No, I think not."
It was the end then between them. She could not take him
and relieve him of the responsibility of himself. She could only
sacrifice herself to him--sacrifice herself every day, gladly.
And that he did not want. He wanted her to hold him and say,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: And thither came Telamon and Oileus, the fathers of the two
Aiantes, who fought upon the plains of Troy; and Mopsus, the
wise soothsayer, who knew the speech of birds; and Idmon, to
whom Phoebus gave a tongue to prophesy of things to come; and
Ancaios, who could read the stars, and knew all the circles
of the heavens; and Argus, the famed shipbuilder, and many a
hero more, in helmets of brass and gold with tall dyed horse-
hair crests, and embroidered shirts of linen beneath their
coats of mail, and greaves of polished tin to guard their
knees in fight; with each man his shield upon his shoulder,
of many a fold of tough bull's hide, and his sword of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: Pavel sat still and watched his horses. The road was clear
and white, and the groom's three blacks went like the wind.
It was only necessary to be calm and to guide them carefully.
At length, as they breasted a long hill, Peter rose cautiously
and looked back. `There are only three sledges left,' he whispered.
`And the wolves?' Pavel asked.
`Enough! Enough for all of us.'
Pavel reached the brow of the hill, but only two sledges followed him
down the other side. In that moment on the hilltop, they saw behind
them a whirling black group on the snow. Presently the groom screamed.
He saw his father's sledge overturned, with his mother and sisters.
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