| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Would safely deliver me from this place!
Here, here's gold for thee.
If that thy master would gain by me,
Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast;
And I will undertake all these to teach.
I doubt not but this populous city will
Yield many scholars.
BOULT.
But can you teach all this you speak of?
MARINA.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: awkward or too shy to dance, and told him that he must dance the
next waltz with Hilda.
The boy screwed up his shoulders. "Aw, Nils, I can't dance.
My feet are too big; I look silly."
"Don't be thinking about yourself. It doesn't matter how boys
look."
Nils had never spoken to him so sharply before, and Eric made
haste to scramble out of his corner and brush the straw from his
coat.
Clara nodded approvingly. "Good for you, Nils. I've been
trying to get hold of him. They dance very nicely together; I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: He went to Delphine at once in his joy. He had procured this
pleasure for her, and doubtless he would receive the price of it.
Mme. de Nucingen was dressing. Rastignac waited in her boudoir,
enduring as best he might the natural impatience of an eager
temperament for the reward desired and withheld for a year. Such
sensations are only known once in a life. The first woman to whom
a man is drawn, if she is really a woman--that is to say, if she
appears to him amid the splendid accessories that form a
necessary background to life in the world of Paris--will never
have a rival.
Love in Paris is a thing distinct and apart; for in Paris neither
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