| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: After talking, however, of the weather, and Bath, and the concert,
their conversation began to flag, and so little was said at last,
that she was expecting him to go every moment, but he did not;
he seemed in no hurry to leave her; and presently with renewed spirit,
with a little smile, a little glow, he said--
"I have hardly seen you since our day at Lyme. I am afraid you must have
suffered from the shock, and the more from its not overpowering you
at the time."
She assured him that she had not.
"It was a frightful hour," said he, "a frightful day!" and he
passed his hand across his eyes, as if the remembrance were still
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: time she thought of "The Girl from Kankakee"; it was Erik
who made suggestions. He had read with astounding breadth,
and astounding lack of judgment. His voice was sensitive to
liquids, but he overused the word "glorious." He mispronounced
a tenth of the words he had from books, but he knew
it. He was insistent, but he was shy.
When he demanded, "I'd like to stage `Suppressed Desires,'
by Cook and Miss Glaspell," Carol ceased to be patronizing.
He was not the yearner: he was the artist, sure of his vision.
"I'd make it simple. Use a big window at the back, with a
cyclorama of a blue that would simply hit you in the eye,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: appointments brought on it the contempt of the jewelled young
countesses and silk-clad misses. Over such feeble fledglings the
directress spread a wing of kindliest protection: it was to
their bedside she came at night to tuck them warmly in; it was
after them she looked in winter to see that they always had a
comfortable seat by the stove; it was they who by turns were
summoned to the salon to receive some little dole of cake or
fruit--to sit on a footstool at the fireside--to enjoy home
comforts, and almost home liberty, for an evening together--to be
spoken to gently and softly, comforted, encouraged, cherished
--and when bedtime came, dismissed with a kiss of true
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