| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely
unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between
the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when
drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was
something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the
nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts?
I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which
contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's
deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left
parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone hail been
shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: Nevertheless they crept out again and looked at him.
"Do you know that your hair is white?" they said, "that your hands begin to
tremble like a child's? Do you see that the point of your shuttle is
gone?--it is cracked already. If you should ever climb this stair," they
said, "it will be your last. You will never climb another."
And he answered, "I know it!" and worked on.
The old, thin hands cut the stones ill and jaggedly, for the fingers were
stiff and bent. The beauty and the strength of the man was gone.
At last, an old, wizened, shrunken face looked out above the rocks. It saw
the eternal mountains rise with walls to the white clouds; but its work was
done.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: before?--for Miss Dolman it was always to be "Cooper's."
CHAPTER XIV
But the summer "holidays" brought a marked difference; they were
holidays for almost every one but the animals in the cage. The
August days were flat and dry, and, with so little to feed it, she
was conscious of the ebb of her interest in the secrets of the
refined. She was in a position to follow the refined to the extent
of knowing--they had made so many of their arrangements with her
aid--exactly where they were; yet she felt quite as if the panorama
had ceased unrolling and the band stopped playing. A stray member
of the latter occasionally turned up, but the communications that
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