| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And live we how we can, yet die we must.
[Enter OXFORD and SOMERSET.]
SOMERSET.
Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are,
We might recover all our loss again.
The queen from France hath brought a puissant power;
Even now we heard the news. Ah, couldst thou fly!
WARWICK.
Why, then I would not fly.--Ah, Montague!
If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand
And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of the rock were very steep; but on ledges here and there could
be seen the bulging walls of queer windowless dwellings, and the
low railings guarding travelled highroads. No ship of men had
ever come so near the place, or at least, had never come so near
and departed again; but Carter and the ghouls were void of fear
and kept inflexibly on, rounding the eastern face of the rock
and seeking the wharves which the rescued trio described as being
on the southern side within a harbour formed of steep headlands.
The headlands were prolongations of the island proper, and came
so closely together that only one ship at a time might pass between
them. There seemed to be no watchers on the outside, so the galley
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: of delay. We understood his staying on, and yet each of us saw, I
think, that the other hated it. The letter we were clear about
arrived; it was for Gwendolen, and I called on her in time to save
her the trouble of bringing it to me. She didn't read it out, as
was natural enough; but she repeated to me what it chiefly
embodied. This consisted of the remarkable statement that he'd
tell her after they were married exactly what she wanted to know.
"Only THEN, when I'm his wife - not before," she explained. "It's
tantamount to saying - isn't it? - that I must marry him straight
off!" She smiled at me while I flushed with disappointment, a
vision of fresh delay that made me at first unconscious of my
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