| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: But wreck itself on passion.
GUIDO
Thou knowest me not.
Tell me the man, and I in everything
Will do thy bidding.
MORANZONE
Well, when the time is ripe,
The victim trusting and the occasion sure,
I will by sudden secret messenger
Send thee a sign.
GUIDO
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: in sail, but I live here so entirely on credit, that I
determined to hang on.
DEC. 1ST.
I was saying yesterday that my life was strange and did not
think how well I spoke. Yesterday evening I was briefed to
defend a political prisoner before the Deputy Commissioner.
What do you think of that for a vicissitude?
DEC. 3RD.
Now for a confession. When I heard you and Cassells had
decided to print THE BOTTLE IMP along with FALESA, I was too
much disappointed to answer. THE BOTTLE IMP was the PIECE DE
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: "Do you, too, want to throw me over? I tell you you can't do that
now."
"I wasn't thinking of throwing you over, but I don't even know
what you mean. There seem to be no end of things I can't do.
Hadn't you better tell me of something that I could do? Have you
any idea yourself what you want from me?"
"You can let me look at you. You can listen to me. You can speak
to me."
"Frankly, I have never shirked doing all those things, whenever
you wanted me to. You have led me . . ."
"I led you!" cried Lingard.
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