| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: ourselves.
They were far from being satisfied with this for an answer: and a
great crowd of them came running down in the morning, by break of
day, to our camp; but seeing us so well posted, they durst come no
farther than the brook in our front, where they stood in such
number as to terrify us very much; indeed, some spoke of ten
thousand. Here they stood and looked at us a while, and then,
setting up a great howl, let fly a crowd of arrows among us; but we
were well enough sheltered under our baggage, and I do not remember
that one of us was hurt.
Some time after this we saw them move a little to our right, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: bursting with health. When she spoke one got the impression that
her voice was more than she could contain. It did not belong in
a drawing-room, but under the open sky of her country home.
"Sir," she said, addressing the doctor, "the baby is awake."
"I will go and see her," was the reply; and then to Madame
Dupont, "We will take up this conversation later on."
"Certainly," said the mother. "Will you have need of the nurse?"
"No, Madame," the doctor answered.
"Nurse," said the mother, "sit down and rest. Wait a minute, I
wish to speak to you." As the doctor went out, she took her son
to one side and whispered to him, "I know the way to arrange
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: Frank would get himself mixed up in the hot-headed doings of the
Klan? Even at this minute, he might be dead. And if he wasn't
dead and the Yankees caught him, he'd be hanged. And Ashley, too!
Her nails dug into her palms until four bright-red crescents
showed. How could Melanie read on and on so calmly when Ashley was
in danger of being hanged? When he might be dead? But something
in the cool soft voice reading the sorrows of Jean Valjean steadied
her, kept her from leaping to her feet and screaming.
Her mind fled back to the night Tony Fontaine had come to them,
hunted, exhausted, without money. If he had not reached their
house and received money and a fresh horse, he would have been
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