| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were
they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And
where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was
all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no
idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns,
were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded,
after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness,
that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room,
humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling
that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee.
"Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: Syrien que vous avez fait capitaine il y a trois jours seulement.
HERODE. Je n'ai donne aucun ordre de le tuer.
SECOND SOLDAT. Il s'est tue lui-meme, Seigneur.
HERODE. Pourquoi? Je l'ai fait capitaine!
SECOND SOLDAT. Nous ne savons pas, Seigneur. Mais il s'est tue
lui-meme.
HERODE. Cela me semble etrange. Je pensais qu'il n'y avait que les
philosophes romains qui se tuaient. N'est-ce pas, Tigellin, que les
philosophes e Rome se tuent?
TIGELLIN. Il y en a qui se tuent, Seigneur. Ce sont les Stoiciens.
Ce sont de gens tres grossiers. Enfin, ce sont des gens tres
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: surely then it would be quieter, and we could tame it more easily.
But I find none, nor any vestige of any; and strangest of all, no
tracks. It has to live on the ground, it cannot help itself;
therefore, how does it get about without leaving a track? I have
set a dozen traps, but they do no good. I catch all small animals
except that one; animals that merely go into the trap out of
curiosity, I think, to see what the milk is there for. They never
drink it.
Three Months Later
The kangaroo still continues to grow, which is very strange and
perplexing. I never knew one to be so long getting its growth.
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