| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: protective instinct. Doubtless it was the call of youth
and weakness which find, always, an answering assur-
ance in the strength of a strong man.
As Bridge groped toward the spot where the boy had
fallen his eyes, now become accustomed to the dark-
ness of the room, saw that the youth was sitting up.
"Well?" he asked. "Feeling better?"
"Where is it? Oh, God! Where is it?" cried the boy.
"It will come in here and kill us as it killed that--that--
down stairs."
"It can't get in," Bridge assured him. "I've locked the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: showing her all deference.
She turned to Trenchard, her head high, her eyes full upon his wrinkled,
cynical face. "I swear, then ..." she began, but he - consummate actor
that he was and versed in tricks that impress an audience - interrupted
her, raising one of his gnarled, yellow hands.
"Nay, nay," said he. "I would not have perjury proved against you.
I do not ask you to swear. It will be sufficient if you pronounce
yourself prepared to swear.
She pouted her lip a trifle, her whole expression manifesting her
contempt of him. "I am in no fear of perjuring myself," she answered
fearlessly. "And I swear that the letter in question was addressed to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: knew perfectly well what was to be done now. First this, then
that, and then forgetfulness would come easy. Very easy. He had
a fixed idea that if he should not forget before he died he would
have to remember to all eternity. Certain things had to be taken
out of his life, stamped out of sight, destroyed, forgotten. For
a long time he stood in deep thought, lost in the alarming
possibilities of unconquerable memory, with the fear of death and
eternity before him. "Eternity!" he said aloud, and the sound of
that word recalled him out of his reverie. The monkey started,
dropped the skin, and grinned up at him amicably.
He went towards the office door and with some difficulty managed
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