| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: escape and returned laboriously to the space under the open
hatchway. Already he could see that the level of the wheat was
raised.
"God," he said, "this isn't going to do at all." He uttered a
great shout. "Hello, on deck there, somebody. For God's sake."
The steady, metallic roar of the pouring wheat drowned out his
voice. He could scarcely hear it himself above the rush of the
cataract. Besides this, he found it impossible to stay under the
hatch. The flying grains of wheat, spattering as they fell,
stung his face like wind-driven particles of ice. It was a
veritable torture; his hands smarted with it. Once he was all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: BAGOT.
For your sake, sir, I'll help him all I can--
[Aside.] To starve his heart out ere he get a groat.
So, master Cromwell, do I take my leave,
For I must straight unto the governour.
[Exit Bagot.]
CROMWELL.
Farewell, sir; pray you remember what I said.--
No, Cromwell, no; thy heart was ne'er so base,
To live by falsehood or by brokery!
But 't falles out well, I little it repent;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: her little flock of children together and labored through hard
and heavy
years to bring them up in purity and knowledge--a Sister of
Charity
who had devoted herself to the nursing of poor folk who were
being
eaten to death by cancer--a schoolmaster whose heart and life
had been poured into his quiet work of training boys for a clean
and
thoughtful manhood--a medical missionary who had given up
a brilliant career in science to take the charge of a hospital in
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