| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Sing on! and I the dying boy will see
Stain with his purple blood the waxen bell
That overweighs the jacinth, and to me
The wretched Cyprian her woe will tell,
And I will kiss her mouth and streaming eyes,
And lead her to the myrtle-hidden grove where Adon lies!
Cry out aloud on Itys! memory
That foster-brother of remorse and pain
Drops poison in mine ear, - O to be free,
To burn one's old ships! and to launch again
Into the white-plumed battle of the waves
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: him food and drink to strengthen him.
"Our brothers of Burzee make queer friends," grumbled an ancient Knook
whose flowing beard was pure white. "But he who knows our secret sign
and signal is entitled to our help, whoever he may be. Close your
eyes, stranger, and we will conduct you to your home. Where shall we
seek it?"
"'Tis in the Laughing Valley," answered Claus, shutting his eyes.
"There is but one Laughing Valley in the known world, so we can not go
astray," remarked the Knook.
As he spoke the sound of his voice seemed to die away, so Claus opened
his eyes to see what caused the change. To his astonishment he found
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: prospects. Thus far we had been singularly free from native
pestering. So I turned back and was making my way over mud and
roots and dead fronds and petals scattered from the green world
above when abruptly I saw my victim.
I became aware of him perhaps forty feet off standing quite
still and regarding me.
He wasn't by any means a pretty figure. He was very black and
naked except for a dirty loin-cloth, his legs were ill-shaped
and his toes spread wide and the upper edge of his cloth and a
girdle of string cut his clumsy abdomen into folds. His forehead
was low, his nose very flat and his lower lip swollen and
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