| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: the last was the greatest, but that I have not ended yet.
SECOND LORD.
If the business be of any difficulty and this morning your
departure hence, it requires haste of your lordship.
BERTRAM.
I mean the business is not ended, as fearing to hear of it
hereafter. But shall we have this dialogue between the fool and
the soldier?--Come, bring forth this counterfeit module has
deceived me like a double-meaning prophesier.
SECOND LORD.
Bring him forth.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: very nature an extraordinary event; but the absolute indifference
of these brown-suited Mongols, the blankness of their flat, fat
faces, the dulness of their slanting, fishlike eyes that never met
his own or even wandered in his direction, was uncanny,
disquieting. In what strange venture was he now to be involved,
toward what unknown vortex was this new current setting, this
current that had so suddenly snatched him from the solid ground of
his accustomed life?
He told himself grimly that he was to have a free cruise up the
bay, perhaps as far as Alviso; perhaps the "Bertha Millner" would
even make the circuit of the bay before returning to San
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: direction of my gaze and perhaps of my thought.
"Where?" asked Prudence.
"Yonder," and Marguerite pointed to the house in question.
"Ah, delicious!" replied Prudence. "Do you like it?"
"Very much."
"Well, tell the duke to take it for you; he would do so, I am
sure. I'll see about it if you like."
Marguerite looked at me, as if to ask me what I thought. My dream
vanished at the last words of Prudence, and brought me back to
reality so brutally that I was still stunned with the fall.
"Yes, yes, an excellent idea," I stammered, not knowing what I
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