| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Do pelt so fast at one another's pate
That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:
Our windows are broke down in every street,
And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops.
[Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates.]
KING.
We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,
To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.
Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.
FIRST SERVING-MAN.
Nay, if we be forbidden stones,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: himself of his clothing. Barney followed his example, but
not before he had crossed to the door that opened into the
main corridor and shot the bolt upon the inside. When both
men had removed their clothing Barney pointed to the little
pile of soiled peasant garb that he had worn.
"Put those on," he commanded.
The king hesitated, drawing back in disgust. Barney
paused, half-way into the royal union suit, and leveled the
revolver at Leopold. The king picked up one of the gar-
ments gingerly between the tips of his thumb and finger.
"Hurry!" admonished the American, drawing the silk half-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: violently breaking off the old sacred relationship between them, and
ceasing to be her child or anything more to her than the first man in
the street might be?
Yet though in this sense the child cannot realize its parent's
humanity, the parent can realize the child's; for the parents with
their experience of life have none of the illusions about the child
that the child has about the parents; and the consequence is that the
child can hurt its parents' feelings much more than its parents can
hurt the child's, because the child, even when there has been none of
the deliberate hypocrisy by which children are taken advantage of by
their elders, cannot conceive the parent as a fellow-creature, whilst
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