| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: missed something. "Partly, I suppose, because there has been no
particular reason why you should see me. I haven't lived in the
world - in your world. I've spent many years out of England, in
different places abroad."
"Well, please don't do it any more. You must do England - there's
such a lot of it."
"Do you mean I must write about it?" and Paul struck the note of
the listening candour of a child.
"Of course you must. And tremendously well, do you mind? That
takes off a little of my esteem for this thing of yours - that it
goes on abroad. Hang 'abroad!' Stay at home and do things here -
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: business is at this hour in this place, and how you come to be so
concerned with a player that you strike blindly at your sovereign in
your jealousy of him.
THE DARK LADY. Madam: as I live and hope for salvation--
SHAKESPEAR. _[sardonically]_ Ha!
THE DARK LADY. _[angrily]_ --ay, I'm as like to be saved as thou
that believest naught save some black magic of words and verses--I
say, madam, as I am a living woman I came here to break with him for
ever. Oh, madam, if you would know what misery is, listen to this man
that is more than man and less at the same time. He will tie you down
to anatomize your very soul: he will wring tears of blood from your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: out upon the bounding floods and the white lightning, she saw him
glance at her apprehensively, and at once she answered his
glance.
"I am not afraid," she said. "If a flame should consume us
together now, what would it matter?"
And so they sat watching the storm till it was over, he with his
face changed by her to a boy's, and she leavened with him.
When at last they were compelled to leave the island, or see no
more of the mountains, it was not a final parting. They would
come back for the last night before their journey ended.
Furthermore, they promised each other like two children to come
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