| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The young man gave the matter but little thought,
usually passing it off as the foolish whim of an old
dotard; but he humored it nevertheless.
Behind him, as he rode down the steep declivity
that day, loomed a very different Torn from that which
he had approached sixteen years before, when, as a
little boy he had ridden through the darkening shadows
of the night, perched upon a great horse behind the
little old woman, whose metamorphosis to the little grim,
gray, old man of Torn their advent to the castle had
marked.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: XI.
Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him:
She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced me,'
And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced me,'
As if the boy should use like loving charms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips
And with her lips on his did act the seizure
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: it; she felt for the instant fairly planted out. "Well, but if in
fact they never do meet you?" she none the less pessimistically
insisted.
"Never? They OFTEN do--and evidently quite on purpose. We have
grand long talks."
There was something in our young lady that could still stay her
from asking for a personal description of these apparitions; that
showed too starved a state. But while she considered she took in
afresh the whole of the clergyman's widow. Mrs. Jordan couldn't
help her teeth, and her sleeves were a distinct rise in the world.
A thousand tulips at a shilling clearly took one further than a
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