| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: his investigation of the electric button. He unscrewed the plate
and examined the wires meeting under it. While doing so he cast
another glance at the table and saw a letter lying there, an open
letter half out of its envelope. This envelope was of unusual shape,
long and narrow, and the paper was heavy and high-glossed.
"Your housekeeper evidently has no secrets from the rest of you,"
Muller remarked with a laugh, still busy at the wires, "or she
wouldn't leave her letters lying about like that."
"Oh, we've all heard what's in that letter," replied Franz. "She
read it to us when it came this morning. It's from the Madam. She
sent messages to all of us and orders, so Mrs. Bernauer read us the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: For a moment or two, she remained smiling, and lightly tapping
her fingers on the table. Suddenly she started, and her face
blanched.
"What was that?"
"I heard nothing."
Mrs. Vandemeyer gazed round her fearfully.
"If there should be some one listening----"
"Nonsense. Who could there be?"
"Even the walls might have ears," whispered the other. "I tell
you I'm frightened. You don't know him!"
"Think of the hundred thousand pounds," said Tuppence soothingly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: you, that's your pretext, and so you can't converse with me; or you
are bent upon something or somebody else.
[15] See "Mem." III. xi. 14.
Then Socrates: For Heaven's sake, don't carbonado[16] me, Antisthenes,
that's all. Any other savagery on your part I can stand, and will
stand, as a lover should. However (he added), the less we say about
your love the better, since it is clearly an attachment not to my
soul, but to my lovely person.
[16] Or, "tear and scratch me."
And then, turning to Callias: And that you, Callias, do love
Autolycus, this whole city knows and half the world besides,[17] if I
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