| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: one could have passed another within arm's-length unseen. And so
she listened, listened intently. And there was very little sound.
Once she detected a footstep from the interior of some room as it
moved across a bare floor; once she heard a door creak somewhere
upstairs; and once, from some indeterminate direction, she thought
she heard voices whispering together for a moment.
She moved suddenly then, abruptly, almost impulsively, but careful
not to make the slightest noise. She dared not remain another
instant inactive. It was what she had expected, what she had
counted upon as an ally, this darkness, but she was not one who
laughed, even in daylight, at its psychology. It was beginning
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: O Beauty, out of many a cup
You have made me drunk and wild
Ever since I was a child,
But when have I been sure as now
That no bitterness can bend
And no sorrow wholly bow
One who loves you to the end?
And though I must give my breath
And my laughter all to death,
And my eyes through which joy came,
And my heart, a wavering flame;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: hard to imagine: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the Boers, all
Great Britain's colonies, coming across the world to pour their gold and
their blood out for her! She did not ask them; she could not force them;
of their own free will they did it. In the whole story of mankind such a
splendid tribute of confidence and loyalty has never before been paid to
any nation.
In this many-peopled world England is our nearest relation. From
Bonaparte to the Kaiser, never has she allowed any outsider to harm us.
We are her cub. She has often clawed us, and we have clawed her in
return. This will probably go on. Once earlier in these pages, I asked
the reader not to misinterpret me, and now at the end I make the same
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