| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: now one book and then another from the shelves, fluttering the
pages between her fingers, while her drooping profile was
outlined against the warm background of old bindings, that he
talked on without pausing to wonder at her sudden interest in so
unsuggestive a subject. But he could never be long with her
without trying to find a reason for what she was doing, and as
she replaced his first edition of La Bruyere and turned away from
the bookcases, he began to ask himself what she had been driving
at. Her next question was not of a nature to enlighten him. She
paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to
admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: shyly, not knowing what explanation he could give of the cause of
his visit.
"You come here very often. What do you want?"
"Oh, nothing in particular; she just sent her compliments,"
murmured Alexander Mikháilovitch, departing from the exact
truth with some effort.
"Very good, very good; come whenever you like; she is one of
my best workers."
Before Susóitchik had time to show the judge out, in
came all the children, laughing and jostling, and hiding one behind
the other.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: always in curvilinear mathematical designs, and there were chiselled
inscriptions in the same characters that the huge books bore.
The dark granite masonry was of a monstrous megathic type, with
lines of convex-topped blocks fitting the concave-bottomed courses
which rested upon them.
There were no chairs, but the tops of
the vast pedestals were littered with books, papers, and what
seemed to be writing materials - oddly figured jars of a purplish
metal, and rods with stained tips. Tall as the pedestals were,
I seemed at times able to view them from above. On some of them
were great globes of luminous crystal serving as lamps, and inexplicable
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