| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: lets life; he had to travel--there were places to which he was
constantly wiring for "rooms": all this she granted him, forgave
him; in fact, in the long run, literally blessed and thanked him
for. If he had to lead his life, that precisely fostered his
leading it so much by telegraph: therefore the benediction was to
come in when he could. That was all she asked--that he shouldn't
wholly deprive her.
Sometimes she almost felt that he couldn't have deprived her even
had he been minded, by reason of the web of revelation that was
woven between them. She quite thrilled herself with thinking what,
with such a lot of material, a bad girl would do. It would be a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: to myself the coming passage through the Malay Archipelago,
down the Indian Ocean, and up the Atlantic. All its phases
were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the
alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas--
everything! . . . except the novel responsibility of command.
But I took heart from the reasonable thought that the ship
was like other ships, the men like other men, and that the sea
was not likely to keep any special surprises expressly
for my discomfiture.
Arrived at that comforting conclusion, I bethought myself
of a cigar and went below to get it. All was still down there.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
Though reason weep, and cry It is thy last.
'For further I could say, This man's untrue,
And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew,
Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
Thought characters and words, merely but art,
And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.
'And long upon these terms I held my city,
Till thus he 'gan besiege me: Gentle maid,
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