| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: That evening he and Alexa dined alone. After dinner he followed
her to the drawing-room. He no longer felt the need of avoiding
her; he was hardly conscious of her presence. After a few words
they lapsed into silence and he sat smoking with his eyes on the
fire. It was not that he was unwilling to talk to her; he felt a
curious desire to be as kind as possible; but he was always
forgetting that she was there. Her full bright presence, through
which the currents of life flowed so warmly, had grown as tenuous
as a shadow, and he saw so far beyond her--
Presently she rose and began to move about the room. She seemed
to be looking for something and he roused himself to ask what she
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red
from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin
and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan,
first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's
laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart
whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still
looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything
to laugh at.
Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till
night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his
long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Deil a shadow has he," replied Hobbie Elliot, who was a
strenuous defender of the general opinion; "he's ower far in wi'
the Auld Ane to have a shadow. Besides," he argued more
logically, "wha ever heard of a shadow that cam between a body
and the sun? and this thing, be it what it will, is thinner
and taller than the body himsell, and has been seen to come
between him and the sun mair than anes or twice either."
These suspicions, which, in any other part of the country, might
have been attended with investigations a little inconvenient to
the supposed wizard, were here only productive of respect and
awe. The recluse being seemed somewhat gratified by the marks of
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