| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: Dornhof aeronautic park and the possibility of an attack coming
upon them not only by sea, but by the air. But it is curious
that so discredited were the newspapers of that period that a
large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the
most copious and circumstantial accounts of the German air-fleet
until it was actually in sight of New York.
Kurt's talk was half soliloquy. He stood with a map on
Mercator's projection before him, swaying to the swinging of the
ship and talking of guns and tonnage, of ships and their build
and powers and speed, of strategic points, and bases of
operation. A certain shyness that reduced him to the status of a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: know, but now I suppose it would be better for you to go away."
He got up, and sobs cut short his words. Vronsky too was getting
up, and in a stooping, not yet erect posture, looked up at him
from under his brows. He did not understand Alexey
Alexandrovitch's feeling, but he felt that it was something
higher and even unattainable for him with his view of life.
Chapter 18
After the conversation with Alexey Alexandrovitch, Vronsky went
out onto the steps of the Karenins' house and stood still, with
difficulty remembering where he was, and where he ought to walk
or drive. He felt disgraced, humiliated, guilty, and deprived of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: shelter to the country birds; beyond these he saw the strong
retaining wall, some thirty feet in height, which enclosed
the garden to the back; and again above that, the pile of
dingy buildings rearing its frontage high into the night. A
peculiar object lying stretched upon the lawn for some time
baffled his eyesight; but at length he had made it out to be
a long ladder, or series of ladders bound into one; and he
was still wondering of what service so great an instrument
could be in such a scant enclosure, when he was recalled to
himself by the noise of some one running violently down the
stairs. This was followed by the sudden, clamorous banging
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