| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: And the compact is firm and true in me.
RIVERS. And so in me; and so, I think, in all.
Yet, since it is but green, it should be put
To no apparent likelihood of breach,
Which haply by much company might be urg'd;
Therefore I say with noble Buckingham
That it is meet so few should fetch the Prince.
HASTINGS. And so say I.
GLOUCESTER. Then be it so; and go we to determine
Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.
Madam, and you, my sister, will you go
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis: Easeley's face expresses very little. His eyes are
small and full and green. His mouth, while large,
misses significance. His nose, indeed, is big; but
it is mild; it is a tame nose; one feels no more
character in it than in a false nose. His chin
and forehead retreat ingloriously from the battle
of life.
But all the personality which his eyes should
show, all the force which should dwell in his
nose, all the temperamental qualities that should
reveal themselves in his mouth and chin, all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: She neither gained nor lost. Rigid, like steel, her little figure
was crouched over the wheel. She did not know the road. She knew
nothing save that she was racing for her life. She did not know
the end; she could not see the end. Perhaps there would be some
merciful piece of luck for her that would win her through a
break-down to that roaring thing, with its eyes that were balls of
fire, behind.
She passed through a town with lighted streets and lighted windows
or was it only imagination? It was gone again, anyhow, and there
was just black road ahead. Over the roar of the car and the sweep
of the wind, then, she caught, or fancied she caught, a series
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