| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.
What shall any man say of his pleasure at meeting Van Helsing?
Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of conventional prefix.
When an individual has revolutionized therapeutics by his discovery
of the continuous evolution of brain matter, conventional forms
are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class.
You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession
of natural gifts, are fitted to hold your respective places in
the moving world, I take to witness that I am as sane as at least
the majority of men who are in full possession of their liberties.
And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: "What do you mean by sleeping like this the whole night through--like a
sack of potatoes? You've let the baby wet his bed twice."
She did not answer, but tied her petticoat string, and buttoned on her
plaid frock with cold, shaking fingers.
"There, that's enough. Take the baby into the kitchen with you, and heat
that cold coffee on the spirit lamp for the master, and give him the loaf
of black bread out of the table drawer. Don't guzzle it yourself or I'll
know."
The Frau staggered across the room, flung herself on to her bed, drawing
the pink bolster round her shoulders.
It was almost dark in the kitchen. She laid the baby on the wooden settle,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: misconduct was necessary to continued vigour of action.
"To energy of thought it is not necessary," said Dr.
Martineau, and considered for a time. "Yet--certainly--I am
not a man of action. I admit it. I make few decisions.
"The chapters of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF A NEW AGE dealing with
women were still undrafted, but they had already greatly
exercised the doctor's mind. He found now that the case of
Sir Richmond had stirred his imagination. He sat with his
hands apposed, his head on one side, and an expression of
great intellectual contentment on his face while these
emancipated ideas gave a sort of gala performance in his
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