| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: of a sighing chambermaid.
In the morning Pettit came to my room. I read
him his doom mercilessly. He laughed idiotically.
"All right, Old Hoss," he said, cheerily, "make
cigar-lighters of it. What's the difference? I'm
going to take her to lunch at Claremont to-day."
There was about a month of it. And then Pettit
came to me bearing an invisible mitten, with the forti-
tude of a dish-rag. He talked of the grave and
South America and prussic acid; and I lost an after-
noon getting him straight. I took him out and saw
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: of the coast, and the danger incurred by a vessel of a tonnage
so light was necessarily very great.
Lieutenant Procope was extremely uneasy. He took in all sail,
struck his topmasts, and resolved to rely entirely on his engine.
But the peril seemed only to increase. Enormous waves caught
the schooner and carried her up to their crests, whence again
she was plunged deep into the abysses that they left.
The screw failed to keep its hold upon the water, but continually
revolved with useless speed in the vacant air; and thus,
although the steam was forced on to the extremest limit consistent
with safety, the vessel held her way with the utmost difficulty,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Ophe. Say you? Nay pray you marke.
He is dead and gone Lady, he is dead and gone,
At his head a grasse-greene Turfe, at his heeles a stone.
Enter King.
Qu. Nay but Ophelia
Ophe. Pray you marke.
White his Shrow'd as the Mountaine Snow
Qu. Alas, looke heere my Lord
Ophe. Larded with sweet Flowers:
Which bewept to the graue did not go,
With true-loue showres
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