| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: "I am sitting up quite by myself," she said. "Give me his meat;" and she
fed the dog herself, cutting his food small for him. She moved to the side
of the bed.
"Now bring the chair near and dress me. It is being in this room so long,
and looking at that miserable little bit of sunshine that comes in through
the shutter, that is making me so ill. Always that lion's paw!" she said,
with a look of disgust at it. "Come and dress me." Gregory knelt on the
floor before her, and tried to draw on one stocking, but the little swollen
foot refused to be covered.
"It is very funny that I should have grown so fat since I have been so
ill," she said, peering down curiously. "Perhaps it is want of exercise."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,
It will outrun you, father, in the end.
YORK.
I took an oath that he should quietly reign.
EDWARD.
But for a kingdom any oath may be broken;
I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.
RICHARD.
No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn.
YORK.
I shall be, if I claim by open war.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: as they were in mid-air among the brambles of the slate rocks.
Corentin, walking up and down the esplanade had too practiced an ear
not to hear the rustling of the shrubs and the light sound of pebbles
rolling down the sides of the precipice. Marche-a-Terre, who seemed to
possess the gift of seeing in darkness, and whose senses, continually
in action, were acute as those of a savage, saw Corentin; like a
trained dog he had scented him. Fouche's diplomatist listened but
heard nothing; he looked at the natural wall of rock and saw no signs.
If the confusing gleam of the fog enabled him to see, here and there,
a crouching Chouan, he took him, no doubt, for a fragment of rock, for
these human bodies had all the appearance of inert nature. This danger
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