| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot: The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who hesitates toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: and round on it. It had become his sole topic, the theme alike of
his most solemn prudences and most placid jests, to which every
opening led for return and revision and in which every little
flower of a foretaste was pulled up as soon as planted. He had
announced at the earliest day--characterising the whole business,
from that moment, as their "plans," under which name he handled it
as a Syndicate handles a Chinese or other Loan--he had promptly
declared that the question must be thoroughly studied, and he
produced, on the whole subject, from day to day, an amount of
information that excited her wonder and even, not a little, as she
frankly let him know, her disdain. When she thought of the danger
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: "But when you get old?" said she.
"We mostly don't live long enough to get old, ma'am," said he, simply.
"But I have a reason, and I am saving."
"Give me the flowers," said Molly. And she left him to arrange them on
the table as Lin came hurrying out.
"I've told her," said he to the Southerner and me, "that I've asked her
twiced, and I'm going to let her have one more chance. And I've told her
that if it's a log cabin she's marryin', why Tommy is a sure good wooden
piece of furniture to put inside it. And I guess she knows there's not
much wooden furniture about me. I want to speak to you." He took the
Virginian round the corner. But though he would not confide in me, I
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