| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: became the lord of seventeen boxes at two dollars a cake. Or
again, the merchant feigns the article is not for sale, is private
property, an heirloom or a gift; and the trick infallibly succeeds.
Thwart the king and you hold him. His autocratic nature rears at
the affront of opposition. He accepts it for a challenge; sets his
teeth like a hunter going at a fence; and with no mark of emotion,
scarce even of interest, stolidly piles up the price. Thus, for
our sins, he took a fancy to my wife's dressing-bag, a thing
entirely useless to the man, and sadly battered by years of
service. Early one forenoon he came to our house, sat down, and
abruptly offered to purchase it. I told him I sold nothing, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: My father's blood nor climbed my mother's bed;
The monstrous offspring of a womb defiled,
Co-mate of him who gendered me, and child.
Was ever man before afflicted thus,
Like Oedipus.
CHORUS
I cannot say that thou hast counseled well,
For thou wert better dead than living blind.
OEDIPUS
What's done was well done. Thou canst never shake
My firm belief. A truce to argument.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: the Sea !
But after that one is in a world of accident and nature. For the
third part of the panorama of London is beyond all law, order,
and precedence; it is the seaport and the sea. One goes down the
widening reaches through a monstrous variety of shipping, great
steamers, great sailing-ships, trailing the flags of all the
world, a monstrous confusion of lighters, witches' conferences
of brown-sailed barges, wallowing tugs, a tumultuous crowding
and jostling of cranes and spars, and wharves and stores, and
assertive inscriptions. Huge vistas of dock open right and left
of one, and here and there beyond and amidst it all are church
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