| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: cookies and your kaffee kuchen, and your thick cream, and
your thicker waitresses and your cockroaches, and your
dinginess and your dowdy German ladies and your black,
black Kaffee,where in this country is there another like
you!
Blackie, true to his promise, had hailed me from the
doorway on the afternoon of the following day. In the
rush of the day's work I had quite forgotten about
Blackie and Baumbach's.
"Come, Kindchen!" he called. "Get your bonnet on.
We will by Baumbach's go, no?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: though the thought is colder than winter, yet shall you think it to
an end."
So the King's daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned
house, and she thought upon the thought. Nine years she sat; and
the sea beat upon the terrace, and the gulls cried about the
turrets, and wind crooned in the chimneys of the house. Nine years
she came not abroad, nor tasted the clean air, neither saw God's
sky. Nine years she sat and looked neither to the right nor to the
left, nor heard speech of any one, but thought upon the thought of
the morrow. And her nurse fed her in silence, and she took of the
food with her left hand, and ate it without grace.
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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: almost put forward for a policy of procrastination. It sounded
silly, of course, as yet, to plead such a motive, especially as the
fascination of the place was after all a sort of torment. But she
liked her torment; it was a torment she should miss at Chalk Farm.
She was ingenious and uncandid, therefore, about leaving the
breadth of London a little longer between herself and that
austerity. If she hadn't quite the courage in short to say to Mr.
Mudge that her actual chance for a play of mind was worth any week
the three shillings he desired to help her to save, she yet saw
something happen in the course of the month that in her heart of
hearts at least answered the subtle question. This was connected
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