| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: But slowly, yielding promise of its shade
To late-born generations; apples wane
Forgetful of their former juice, the grape
Bears sorry clusters, for the birds a prey.
Soothly on all must toil be spent, and all
Trained to the trench and at great cost subdued.
But reared from truncheons olives answer best,
As vines from layers, and from the solid wood
The Paphian myrtles; while from suckers spring
Both hardy hazels and huge ash, the tree
That rims with shade the brows of Hercules,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: During the day, an unusual stir was going on in the
Angara camp. From the windows of the palace important
preparations on the opposite shore could be distinctly seen.
Numerous Tartar detachments were converging towards the
camp, and from hour to hour reinforced the Emir's troops.
These movements, intended to deceive the besieged, were
conducted in the most open manner possible before their
eyes.
Ogareff had warned the Grand Duke that an attack was
to be feared. He knew, he said, that an assault was to be
made, both above and below the town, and he counselled the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: her mind, "He is like a weed."
Jonathan stooped again and kissed her fingers.
"Heaven reward thy sweet patience, lady mine," he murmured. "I must go
seek those heirs to my fame and fortune..." He was gone.
Chapter 1.XI.
Light shone in the windows of the bungalow. Two square patches of gold
fell upon the pinks and the peaked marigolds. Florrie, the cat, came out
on to the veranda, and sat on the top step, her white paws close together,
her tail curled round. She looked content, as though she had been waiting
for this moment all day.
"Thank goodness, it's getting late," said Florrie. "Thank goodness, the
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