| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: And when his gaudy banner is display'd,
The coward fights and will not be dismay'd.
'Then, childish fear, avaunt! debating, die!
Respect and reason wait on wrinkled age!
My heart shall never countermand mine eye;
Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage;
My part is youth, and beats these from the stage:
Desire my pilot is, beauty my prize;
Then who fears sinking where such treasure lies?'
As corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear
Is almost chok'd by unresisted lust.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: the evening I hear bells and guns, and see the blazing of a
thousand bonfires.
A young admiral of noble birth, does likewise this month gain
immortal honour by a great achievement.
The affairs of Poland are this month entirely settled: Augustus
resigns his pretensions which he had again taken up for some
time: Stanislaus is peaceably possess'd of the throne; and the
King of Sweden declares for the Emperor.
I cannot omit one particular accident here at home; that near the
end of this month much mischief will be done at Bartholomew Fair,
by the fall of a booth.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: At that the dark young man leaned over and patted Terry's hand
that lay on the counter. He smiled. His own hand was incredibly
slender, long, and tapering.
"That's all right," he assured her, and smiled. "You two
girls can have a reunion later. What I want to know is can you
play by ear?"
"Yes, but----"
He leaned far over the counter. "I knew it the minute I heard
you play. You've got the touch. Now listen. See if you can get
this, and fake the bass."
He fixed his somber and hypnotic eyes on Terry. His mouth
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