| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: bushy white eyebrows, had very good reason to know
something of that. The world had progressed since
that time.
Mr. Van Wyk demurred with unexpected acrimony.
Progressed in what? he wanted to know.
Why, in knowledge of truth, in decency, in justice, in
order--in honesty too, since men harmed each other
mostly from ignorance. It was, Captain Whalley con-
cluded quaintly, more pleasant to live in.
Mr. Van Wyk whimsically would not admit that Mr.
Massy, for instance, was more pleasant naturally than
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: you see HE'S pretty quiet. And his brother's pretty quiet,
and them four witnesses that lied so and got paid for it,
they're pretty quiet. And as for Uncle Silas, it ain't
any use for him to put in his oar, I wouldn't believe him
under oath!"
Well, sir, that fairly made them shout; and even the judge he
let go and laughed. Tom he was just feeling like a rainbow.
When they was done laughing he looks up at the judge and says:
"Your honor, there's a thief in this house."
"A thief?"
"Yes, sir. And he's got them twelve-thousand-dollar
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Where we shall celebrate these exequies,
And place young Locrine in his father's tomb.
[Exeunt omnes.]
[Enter Ate.]
ATE.
Lo here the end of lawless treachery,
Of usurpation and ambitious pride;
And they that for their private amours dare
Turmoil our land, and set their broils abroach,
Let them be warned by these premises.
And as a woman was the only cause
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