| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: "Oh you're a person whom nothing can have altered. You were born
to be what you are, anywhere, anyway: you've the perfection
nothing else could have blighted. And don't you see how, without
my exile, I shouldn't have been waiting till now - ?" But he
pulled up for the strange pang.
"The great thing to see," she presently said, "seems to me to be
that it has spoiled nothing. It hasn't spoiled your being here at
last. It hasn't spoiled this. It hasn't spoiled your speaking - "
She also however faltered.
He wondered at everything her controlled emotion might mean. "Do
you believe then - too dreadfully! - that I AM as good as I might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: confess, with complaints and expressions of despair. I had no spirit
to oppose this ill fortune.
As I had foretold, the water failed entirely by the end of the first
day's retrograde march. Our fluid aliment was now nothing but gin;
but this infernal fluid burned my throat, and I could not even endure
the sight of it. I found the temperature and the air stifling.
Fatigue paralysed my limbs. More than once I dropped down motionless.
Then there was a halt; and my uncle and the Icelander did their best
to restore me. But I saw that the former was struggling painfully
against excessive fatigue and the tortures of thirst.
At last, on Tuesday, July 8, we arrived on our hands and knees, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Penberthy of Marazion, my good comrade, and a few more, saying,
'That we had no need to return to England, seeing that we were
already in the very garden of Eden, and wanted for nothing, but
could live without labor or toil; and that it was better, when we
got over to the North Sea, to go and seek out some fair island, and
there dwell in joy and pleasure till our lives' end. And we two,'
he said, 'will be king and queen, and you, whom I can trust, my
officers; and for servants we will have the Indians, who, I
warrant, will be more fain to serve honest and merry masters like
us than those Spanish devils,' and much more of the like; which
words I liked well,--my mind, alas! being given altogether to
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