| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: charity from the world; but, I confess, I have much
to hope from such a brother; and I am happy that I
may soon say, such a sister.
MARIA
My dear, you distress me; you have all my love.
MANLY
And mine.
CHARLOTTE
If repentance can entitle me to forgiveness, I have
already much merit; for I despise the littleness of my
past conduct. I now find that the heart of any wor-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: and not very steep, because they circled around like a cork-screw, and
at the arched opening where the flight began the circle was quite big.
At the foot of the stairs was a sign reading:
WARNING.
These steps lead to the
Land of the Gargoyles.
DANGER! KEEP OUT.
"I wonder how Jim is ever going to draw the buggy up so many stairs,"
said Dorothy, gravely.
"No trouble at all," declared the horse, with a contemptuous neigh.
"Still, I don't care to drag any passengers. You'll all have to walk."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: wretches. The callous beasts stood above the box apparently
quite insensible to the ethical enormity of their crime. But they
were keen enough to see that it might be used as a lever with
which to force more money from me. For when I demanded that they
take the box away with them and dispose of it, they only laughed
at me. They said that they had had enough of that box. They had
delivered the goods--that was the phrase they used--and they
wanted more money. And they said they would not leave until they
got it. They threatened, unless I gave them the money at once,
to leave the place and get word to the police of the presence of
the box in my apartment.
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