| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: "Come upstairs first," said Nightspore.
The upstairs rooms proved to consist of a library and three bedrooms.
All the windows were tightly closed, and the air was insufferable.
The beds had been slept in, evidently a long time ago, and had never
been made since. The tumbled, discoloured bed linen actually
preserved the impressions of the sleepers. There was no doubt that
these impressions were ancient, for all sorts of floating dirt had
accumulated on the sheets and coverlets.
"Who could have slept here, do you think?" interrogated Maskull.
"The observatory staff?"
"More likely travellers like ourselves. They left suddenly."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: silent through the meal.
When the bustle of clearing away the table was over he strolled
toward Mrs. Travers and remarked very quietly:
"I think that in keeping away from us this evening the Man of
Fate was well inspired. We dined like a lot of Carthusian monks."
"You allude to our silence?"
"It was most scrupulous. If we had taken an eternal vow we
couldn't have kept it better."
"Did you feel bored?"
"Pas du tout," d'Alcacer assured her with whimsical gravity. "I
felt nothing. I sat in a state of blessed vacuity. I believe I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: his request.'
'You are quite a Christian, Mr Varden,' said Sir John; 'and in that
amiable capacity, you increase my desire that you should take a
chair.'
'He said,' continued Gabriel, looking steadily at the knight, 'that
he had sent to me, because he had no friend or companion in the
whole world (being the common hangman), and because he believed,
from the way in which I had given my evidence, that I was an honest
man, and would act truly by him. He said that, being shunned by
every one who knew his calling, even by people of the lowest and
most wretched grade, and finding, when he joined the rioters, that
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