| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: table. The officer stood in respectful silence awaiting the
answer that the king had told him to bring. The princess sat
down before the carved bit of furniture. Mechanically she
drew a piece of note paper from a drawer. Many times she
dipped her pen in the ink before she could determine what
reply to send. Ages of ingrained royalistic principles were
shocked and shattered by the enormity of the thing the man
she loved had asked of her, and yet cold reason told her
that it was the only way.
Lutha would be lost should the truth be known--that the
king was dead, for there was no heir of closer blood con-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: and miles of asphalted roads running between cottages and
cut-stone residences of those who have money and peace. All the
Eastern cities own this fringe of elegance, but except in Chicago
nowhere is the fringe deeper or more heavily widened than in
Buffalo.
The American will go to a bad place because he cannot speak
English, and is proud of it; but he knows how to make a home for
himself and his mate, knows how to keep the grass green in front
of his veranda, and how to fullest use the mechanism of life--hot
water, gas, good bell-ropes, telephones, etc. His shops sell him
delightful household fitments at very moderate rates, and he is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: was so wildly bent on this Scheme, that we had the greatest
Difficulty in the World to prevent her putting it in execution;
at last however more by Force than Entreaty we prevailed on her
to go into her room; we laid her upon the Bed, and she continued
for some Hours in the most dreadful Convulsions. My Mother and I
continued in the room with her, and when any intervals of
tolerable Composure in Eloisa would allow us, we joined in
heartfelt lamentations on the dreadful Waste in our provisions
which this Event must occasion, and in concerting some plan for
getting rid of them. We agreed that the best thing we could do
was to begin eating them immediately, and accordingly we ordered
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