| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: hit him with the club; and they seen him hide Jubiter
in the bushes, and they seen that Jubiter was stone-dead.
And said Uncle Silas come later and lugged Jubiter down
into the tobacker field, and two men seen him do it.
And said Uncle Silas turned out, away in the night,
and buried Jubiter, and a man seen him at it.
I says to myself, poor old Uncle Silas has been lying
about it because he reckoned nobody seen him and he
couldn't bear to break Aunt Sally's heart and Benny's;
and right he was: as for me, I would 'a' lied the same way,
and so would anybody that had any feeling, to save
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: "But weren't you a little careless about me, Cheetah?"
"I never thought of you," said Benham, and then as if he felt that
inadequate: "You see--I was so annoyed. It's odd at times how
annoyed one gets. Suddenly when that horse shied I realized what a
beastly business life was--as those brutes up there live it. I want
to clear out the whole hot, dirty, little aimless nest of them. . . ."
"No, I'm sure," he repeated after a pause as though he had been
digesting something "I wasn't thinking about you at all."
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The suppression of his discovery that his honeymoon was not in the
least the great journey of world exploration he had intended, but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Twilight
Night Song at Amalfi
The Look
A Winter Night
A Cry
Gifts
But Not to Me
Song at Capri
Child, Child
Love Me
Pierrot
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