| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: she stood still. Out across the water there was something moving. She
shaded her eyes and looked. It was a boat; it was sliding swiftly over the
moonlit water out to sea. One stood upright in it; the face the moonlight
did not show, but the figure she knew. It was passing swiftly; it seemed
as if no one propelled it; the moonlight's shimmer did not let her see
clearly, and the boat was far from shore, but it seemed almost as if there
was another figure sitting in the stern. Faster and faster it glided over
the water away, away. She ran along the shore; she came no nearer it. The
garment she had held closed fluttered open; she stretched out her arms, and
the moonlight shone on her long loose hair.
Then a voice beside her whispered, "What is it?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: Give me no ground for confidence or fear.
CREON
If thou wouldst hear my message publicly,
I'll tell thee straight, or with thee pass within.
OEDIPUS
Speak before all; the burden that I bear
Is more for these my subjects than myself.
CREON
Let me report then all the god declared.
King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate
A fell pollution that infests the land,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: the riverside I saw the body. Where it is now I do not know."
"So you have seen it?" asked Reshid, eagerly. "Is it Dain? You
have seen him many times. You would know him."
The girl's lips quivered and she remained silent for a while,
breathing quickly.
"I have seen him, not a long time ago," she said at last. "The
talk is true; he is dead. What do you want from me, Tuan? I
must go."
Just then the report of the gun fired on board the steam launch
was heard, interrupting Reshid's reply. Leaving the girl he ran
to the house, and met in the courtyard Abdulla coming towards the
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