| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: arm politely and saying, "I complain of so-and-so;" but what
usually happened was that they forgot to do this or did it too
much.
"Silence," cried Wendy when for the twentieth time she had told
them that they were not all to speak at once. "Is your mug empty,
Slightly darling?"
"Not quite empty, mummy," Slightly said, after looking into an
imaginary mug.
"He hasn't even begun to drink his milk," Nibs interposed.
This was telling, and Slightly seized his chance.
"I complain of Nibs," he cried promptly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: come down from the heights of thought to sit among the kings of men.
Woman! instead of comforting men, thou hast tormented and afflicted
them! Knowing that thou couldst ask and have, thou hast demanded--
blood! A little flour surely should have contented thee, accustomed as
thou hast been to live on bread and to mingle water with thy wine.
Unlike all others in all things, formerly thou wouldst bid thy lovers
fast, and they obeyed. Why should thy fancies have led thee to require
things impossible? Why, like a courtesan spoiled by her lovers, hast
thou doted on follies, and left those undeceived who sought to explain
and justify all thy errors? Then came the days of thy later passions,
terrible like the love of a woman of forty years, with a fierce cry
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Verily, those who say our signs are lies and are too big with
pride for them; for these the doors of heaven shall not be opened, and
they shall not enter into Paradise until a camel shall pass into a
needle's eye.
It is thus that we reward the sinners; for them is a couch of
hell-fire, with an awning above them! thus do we reward the unjust!
But those who believe and do what is right- we will not oblige a
soul more than its capacity- they are the fellows of Paradise, they
shall dwell therein for aye.
We will strip away what ill feeling is in their breasts- there shall
flow beneath them rivers, and they shall say, 'Praise belongs to God
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