| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: it to be the only way of escape for me, I set myself far more
grimly and resolutely to my studies than I had ever done before.
After a time I wrote to him in more moderate terms, and he
answered me evasively. And then I tried to dismiss him from my
mind and went on working.
Yes, that first raid upon London under the moist and chilly
depression of January had an immense effect upon me. It was for
me an epoch-making disappointment. I had thought of London as a
large, free, welcoming, adventurous place, and I saw it slovenly
and harsh and irresponsive.
I did not realise at all what human things might be found behind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,
Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is:
If broken, then it is no fault of mine.
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
To break an oath, to win a paradise?
IV.
Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
Did court the lad with many a lovely look,
Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen,
She told him stories to delight his ear;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bars that separated us. Already the chamber had turned
upon its slow way so far that but a portion of the opening
in the temple wall was opposite the barred end of the corridor.
Slowly the interval was closing. In a short time there
would be but a tiny crack, and then even that would be
closed, and for a long Barsoomian year the chamber would
slowly revolve until once more for a brief day the aperture
in its wall would pass the corridor's end.
But in the meantime what horrible things would go on
within that chamber!
"Xodar!" I cried. "Can no power stop this awful revolving thing?
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