| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: adding to my sense of the liberality with which I was treated.
The large, impressive room, one of the best in the house, the great
state bed, as I almost felt it, the full, figured draperies,
the long glasses in which, for the first time, I could see
myself from head to foot, all struck me--like the extraordinary
charm of my small charge--as so many things thrown in.
It was thrown in as well, from the first moment, that I
should get on with Mrs. Grose in a relation over which,
on my way, in the coach, I fear I had rather brooded.
The only thing indeed that in this early outlook might have
made me shrink again was the clear circumstance of her being
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: their scurvy fluffs fluttering down the quiet air. On the slope the blossoms
of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the
leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist
against the coming aridity of summer. In the open spaces on the slope, beyond
the farthest shadow-reach of the manzanita, poised the mariposa lilies, like
so many flights of jewelled moths suddenly arrested and on the verge of
trembling into flight again. Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone,
permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to
madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen
bells. Creamy white were these bells, shaped like lilies-of-the-valley, with
the sweetness of perfume that is of the springtime.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: world did you do it?"
"Never you mind. The question is, what you goin' t'
do with him, now you've got him? Goin' t' have a French
bunny for him, or fetch him up by hand? Wheeling
appointed a probation skirt to look after the crowd of
us, and we got t' toe the mark."
"Glory be!" I ejaculated. "I don't know what I shall
do with him. I shall have to bring him down with me
every morning, and perhaps you can make a sporting editor
out of him."
"Nix. Not with that forehead. He's a high-brow.
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