| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: I dare not look across it: when you stabbed him
You stabbed Love with a sharp knife to the heart.
We cannot meet again.
DUCHESS
[wringing her hands]
For you! For you!
I did it all for you: have you forgotten?
You said there was a barrier between us;
That barrier lies now i' the upper chamber
Upset, overthrown, beaten, and battered down,
And will not part us ever.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: mine rode a horse named Blue. One day, the trail
being slippery with rain, he slid and fell. My friend
managed a successful jump, but Blue tumbled about
thirty feet to the bed of the canon. Fortunately he
was not injured. After some difficulty my friend
managed to force his way through the chaparral to
where Blue stood. Then it was fine to see them.
My friend would go ahead a few feet, picking a route.
When he had made his decision, he called Blue. Blue
came that far, and no farther. Several times the little
horse balanced painfully and unsteadily like a goat,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: I wish your son's house and Mr. Wildeve's were a hundred
miles apart instead of four or five."
"Then there WAS an understanding between him
and Clym's wife when he made a fool of Thomasin!"
"We'll hope there's no understanding now."
"And our hope will probably be very vain. O Clym!
O Thomasin!"
"There's no harm done yet. In fact, I've persuaded
Wildeve to mind his own business."
"How?"
"O, not by talking--by a plan of mine called the silent system."
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