| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: plague of Charles II.'s time. The old Britons, without knowing in
the least what they were doing, settled old London city in the
very centre of the most wonderful natural reservoir in this
island, or perhaps in all Europe; which reaches from Kent into
Wiltshire, and round again into Suffolk; and that is, the dear old
chalk downs."
"Why, they are always dry."
"Yes. But the turf on them never burns up, and the streams which
flow through them never run dry, and seldom or never flood either.
Do you not know, from Winchester, that that is true? Then where
is all the rain and snow gone, which falls on them year by year,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: my son!" Then, as they huddled together, frightened, wild-eyed.
"Out of my house! Out of my house! Before I hurt you!"
They fled, terrified. The door banged behind them.
Jo stood, shaking, in the center of the room. Then he reached
for a chair, gropingly, and sat down. He passed one moist,
flabby hand over his forehead and it came away wet. The
telephone rang. He sat still. It sounded far away and
unimportant, like something forgotten. But it rang and rang
insistently. Jo liked to answer his telephone when he was at
home.
"Hello!" He knew instantly the voice at the other end.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: more irksome to Adam. Arthur had just poured out some more
brandy-and-water, and he threw one arm behind his head and drew up
one leg in an attitude of recovered ease, which was an
irresistible temptation to Adam to speak what was on his mind.
"You begin to feel more yourself again, sir," he said, as the
candle went out and they were half-hidden from each other in the
faint moonlight.
"Yes: I don't feel good for much--very lazy, and not inclined to
move; but I'll go home when I've taken this dose."
There was a slight pause before Adam said, "My temper got the
better of me, and I said things as wasn't true. I'd no right to
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