| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: tion of horror or remorse to recall; I saw it simply as a thing
done, a memory infinitely disagreeable but quite without the
quality of remorse. I saw myself then as I see myself now,
driven step by step towards that hasty blow, the creature of
a sequence of accidents leading inevitably to that. I felt no
condemnation; yet the memory, static, unprogressive, haunted
me. In the silence of the night, with that sense of the near-
ness of God that sometimes comes into the stillness and the
darkness, I stood my trial, my only trial, for that moment of
wrath and fear. I retraced every step of our conversation from
the moment when I had found him crouching beside me,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: However, as regards the rest of the Electors, Princes, and
Estates, who constitute the other part, if no progress should be
made, nor some result be attained by this treatment of the cause
of religion after the manner in which Your Imperial Majesty has
wisely held that it should be dealt with and treated namely, by
such mutual presentation of writings and calm conferring together
among ourselves, we at least leave with you a clear testimony,
that we here in no wise are holding back from anything that could
bring about Christian concord, -- such as could be effected with
God and a good conscience, -- as also Your Imperial Majesty and,
next, the other Electors and Estates of the Empire, and all who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: remained no communications of any sort between them.
It was not at all on her account, he assured himself,
that he had turned against Plowden. But what other reason
could there be? He observed his visitor's perturbed
and dejected mien with a grim kind of satisfaction--but
still he could not tell why.
"This is all terribly important to me," the nobleman said,
breaking the unpleasant silence. His voice was surcharged
with earnestness. "Apparently you are annoyed with
something--what it may be I can't for the life of me make out.
All I can say is"--and he broke off with a helpless
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