| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: She held her baby warm against her breast;
That never any fear awoke whereunder
She shuddered at her gift, or trembled lest
Thru the great doors of birth
Here to a windy earth
She lured from heaven a half-unwilling guest.
She caught and kept his first vague flickering smile,
The faint upleaping of his spirit's fire;
And for a long sweet while
In her was all he asked of earth or heaven--
But in the end how far,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: for the doctor; but the doctor has been all day long playing chess
with me. He told me, laughing, that in these days there was but one
malady, and that was incurable."
This joke was cautiously uttered. Men, women, old men, and young
girls, all set to work to explore the vast field of conjecture. The
next day, conjectures became suspicions. As life is all aboveboard in
a little town, the women were the first to learn that Brigitte had
made larger purchases than usual in the market. This fact could not be
disputed: Brigitte had been seen there, very early in the morning;
and, extraordinary event! she had bought the only hare the market
afforded. Now all the town knew that Madame de Dey did not like game.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: were not pleasant to hear.
A dark cloud now and then covered the sun; the larks were soaring
above the fields of winter corn; the forests were already covered
with fresh young green; the meadows speckled with grazing cattle
and horses. The fields were being ploughed, and Nekhludoff
enjoyed the lovely day. But every now and then he had an
unpleasant feeling, and, when he asked himself what it was caused
by, he remembered what the driver had told him about the way the
German was managing Kousminski. When he got to his estate and set
to work this unpleasant feeling vanished.
Looking over the books in the office, and a talk with the
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