| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: social system.... It's all a chance whether I roll out free at
the bottom, or go down a crack into the darkness out of sight for
a year or two."
"The sun," she remarked irrelevantly,"has burnt you.... I'm
getting down."
She swung herself down into my arms, and stood beside me face to
face.
"Where's Cothope?" she asked.
"Gone."
Her eyes flitted to the pavilion and back to me. We stood close
together, extraordinarily intimate, and extraordinarily apart.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: BUCKINGHAM. He did, my gracious lord, begin that place,
Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.
PRINCE. Is it upon record, or else reported
Successively from age to age, he built it?
BUCKINGHAM. Upon record, my gracious lord.
PRINCE. But say, my lord, it were not regist'red,
Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.
GLOUCESTER. [Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never
live long.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: look-outs, the men on deck rushed to the rigging to behold the famous
whale they had so long been pursuing. Ahab had now gained his final
perch, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing just
beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast, so that the Indian's
head was almost on a level with Ahab's heel. From this height the
whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea
revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent
spout into the air. To the credulous mariners it seemed the same
silent spout they had so long ago beheld in the moonlit Atlantic and
Indian Oceans.
"And did none of ye see it before?" cried Ahab, hailing the perched
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