| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: The Actors are at hand; and by their show,
You shall know all, that you are like to know
Thes. This fellow doth not stand vpon points
Lys. He hath rid his Prologue, like a rough Colt: he
knowes not the stop. A good morall my lord. it is not
enough to speake, but to speake true
Hip. Indeed hee hath plaid on his Prologue, like a
childe on a Recorder, a sound, but not in gouernment
Thes. His speech was like a tangled chaine: nothing
impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?
Tawyer with a Trumpet before them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: lingering in some tienda or unduly prolonging her bath
upon the beach. All search was fruitless. Mademoi-
selle had vanished.
Half an hour passed and she did not appear. The
dictator, unused to the caprices of prime donne, became
impatient. He sent an aide from his box to say to the
manager that if the curtain did not at once rise he would
immediately hale the entire company to the calabosa,
though it would desolate his heart, indeed, to be com-
pelled to such an act. Birds in Macuto could be made
to sing.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: convention. Perhaps Rufe was wrong; but, looking on life
plainly, he was unable to perceive that croquet or poker were
in any way less important than, for instance, mending his
waggon. Even his own profession, hunting, was dear to him
mainly as a sort of play; even that he would have neglected,
had it not appealed to his imagination. His hunting-suit,
for instance, had cost I should be afraid to say how many
bucks - the currency in which he paid his way: it was all
befringed, after the Indian fashion, and it was dear to his
heart. The pictorial side of his daily business was never
forgotten. He was even anxious to stand for his picture in
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