| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: kindnesse
Cassio. I thinke it freely: and betimes in the morning,
I will beseech the vertuous Desdemona to vndertake
for me: I am desperate of my Fortunes if they check me
Iago. You are in the right: good night Lieutenant, I
must to the Watch
Cassio. Good night, honest Iago.
Exit Cassio.
Iago. And what's he then,
That saies I play the Villaine?
When this aduise is free I giue, and honest,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: where I could have defended Dejah Thoris against any army
of swordsmen.
The Tharks were having their hands full in the center of
the room, and I began to realize that nothing short of a
miracle could save Dejah Thoris and myself, when I saw
Tars Tarkas surging through the crowd of pygmies that
swarmed about him. With one swing of his mighty longsword
he laid a dozen corpses at his feet, and so he hewed a pathway
before him until in another moment he stood upon the platform
beside me, dealing death and destruction right and left.
The bravery of the Zodangans was awe-inspiring, not one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: fire of signal. The next moment a hail reached me from the
boat; and bursting through the bushes and the rising sea-fowl, I
said farewell (I trust for ever) to that desert isle.
CHAPTER XVI.
IN WHICH I TURN SMUGGLER, AND THE CAPTAIN CASUIST
The last night at Midway, I had little sleep; the next morning,
after the sun was risen, and the clatter of departure had begun
to reign on deck, I lay a long while dozing; and when at last I
stepped from the companion, the schooner was already leaping
through the pass into the open sea. Close on her board, the
huge scroll of a breaker unfurled itself along the reef with a
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