| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: transparent; through the even tenor of his gravity and
courtesy profound revolutions of feeling were betrayed,
seasons of numb despair, of restlessness, of aching temper.
For days he would say nothing beyond his usual courtesies and
solemn compliments; and then, all of a sudden, some fine
evening beside the kitchen fire, he would fall into a vein of
elegant gossip, tell of strange and interesting events, the
secrets of families, brave deeds of war, the miraculous
discovery of crime, the visitations of the dead. Nance and
her uncle would sit till the small hours with eyes wide open:
Jonathan applauding the unexpected incidents with many a slap
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: had straightway, there, turned it on me--the lovely upward look with which,
from the battlements above me, the hideous apparition of Quint had played.
If it was a question of a scare, my discovery on this occasion
had scared me more than any other, and it was in the condition
of nerves produced by it that I made my actual inductions.
They harassed me so that sometimes, at odd moments, I shut myself
up audibly to rehearse--it was at once a fantastic relief and a
renewed despair--the manner in which I might come to the point.
I approached it from one side and the other while, in my room,
I flung myself about, but I always broke down in the monstrous
utterance of names. As they died away on my lips, I said to myself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: not be in camp, I searched every square inch of the compound and
all the buildings, yet without avail.
It was Whitely who discovered the first clue--a huge human-like
footprint in the soft earth beside the spring, and indications of
a struggle in the mud.
Then I found a tiny handkerchief close to the outer wall.
Lys had been stolen! It was all too plain. Some hideous member
of the ape-man tribe had entered the fort and carried her off.
While I stood stunned and horrified at the frightful evidence
before me, there came from the direction of the great lake an
increasing sound that rose to the volume of a shriek. We all
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