| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: settled the fate of Britain, and therefore of North America; which
decided--just in those great times when the decision was to be made-
-whether we should be on a par with the other civilised nations of
Europe, like them the "heirs of all the ages," with our share not
only of Roman Christianity and Roman centralisation--a member of the
great comity of European nations, held together in one Christian
bond by the Pope--but heirs also of Roman civilisation, Roman
literature, Roman Law; and therefore, in due time, of Greek
philosophy and art. No less a question than this, it seems to me,
hung in the balance during that fortnight of autumn, 1066.
Poor old Edward the Confessor, holy, weak, and sad, lay in his new
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: ditches. Only thirty days!
And it was only four months since the Yankees moved south from
Dalton! Only four months! Scarlett thought, looking back on that
far day, that it had occurred in another life. Oh, no! Surely not
just four months. It had been a lifetime.
Four months ago! Why, four months ago Dalton, Resaca, Kennesaw
Mountain had been to her only names of places on the railroad. Now
they were battles, battles desperately, vainly fought as Johnston
fell back toward Atlanta. And now, Peachtree Creek, Decatur, Ezra
Church and Utoy Creek were no longer pleasant names of pleasant
places. Never again could she think of them as quiet villages full
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: here I should be safer."
"From me?"
She bent her head slightly, without looking at him.
"Safer from loving me?"
Her profile did not stir, but he saw a tear overflow
on her lashes and hang in a mesh of her veil.
"Safer from doing irreparable harm. Don't let us be
like all the others!" she protested.
"What others? I don't profess to be different from
my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the
same longings."
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