| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: to the Frogman, giving him the pin, "is to stick this into the other
side of the wall."
"But the wall is of steel!" exclaimed the big frog.
"I know. At least, it SEEMS to be steel, but do as I tell you. Stick
the pin into the wall, and it will disappear."
The Frogman took off his handsome coat and carefully folded it and
laid it on the grass. Then he removed his hat and laid it together
with his gold-headed cane beside the coat. He then went back a way
and made three powerful leaps in rapid succession. The first two
leaps took him to the wall, and the third leap carried him well over
it, to the amazement of all. For a short time, he disappeared from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: comparison, and, catching my pupil in my arms, covered her with kisses
in which there was a sob of atonement.
Nonetheless, the rest of the day I watched for further occasion
to approach my colleague, especially as, toward evening,
I began to fancy she rather sought to avoid me. I overtook her,
I remember, on the staircase; we went down together, and at the
bottom I detained her, holding her there with a hand on her arm.
"I take what you said to me at noon as a declaration that
YOU'VE never known him to be bad."
She threw back her head; she had clearly, by this time,
and very honestly, adopted an attitude. "Oh, never known him--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Do you mean to insinuate anything?' cried Morris stormily,
trying the high hand.
'Insinuate?' repeated Michael. 'O, don't let's begin to use
awkward expressions! Let us drown our differences in a bottle,
like two affable kinsmen. The Two Affable Kinsmen, sometimes
attributed to Shakespeare,' he added.
Morris's mind was labouring like a mill. 'Does he suspect? or is
this chance and stuff? Should I soap, or should I bully? Soap,'
he concluded. 'It gains time.' 'Well,' said he aloud, and with
rather a painful affectation of heartiness, 'it's long since we
have had an evening together, Michael; and though my habits (as
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