| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: his log cabin with him and now cooked for him. But it was the
same food: bacon, beans, flour, prunes, dried fruits, and rice.
He still dressed as formerly: overalls, German socks, moccasins,
flannel shirt, fur cap, and blanket coat. He did not take up
with cigars, which cost, the cheapest, from half a dollar to a
dollar each. The same Bull Durham and brown-paper cigarette,
hand-rolled, contented him. It was true that he kept more dogs,
and paid enormous prices for them. They were not a luxury, but a
matter of business. He needed speed in his travelling and
stampeding. And by the same token, he hired a cook. He was too
busy to cook for himself, that was all. It was poor business,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: They walked through the wide corridor, then turned into a shorter,
darker hall and went up a narrow winding stairway. Franz halted
before a door in the second story. It was the last of the three
doors in the hall." Muller took off his hat as the door opened
and murmured a "good-evening."
"There's no one there; Mrs. Bernaner's out."
"Has she gone away, too?" asked the electrician hastily.
Franz did not notice that there was a slight change in the stranger's
voice at this question, and he answered calmly as ever: "Oh, no;
she's just driven to town. T think she went to see the doctor who
lives quite a distance away. She hasn't been feeling at all well.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Its body was a small log and its legs were limbs of trees stuck in the
body. Its eyes were knots, its mouth was sawed in the end of the log
and its ears were two chips. A small branch had been left at the rear
end of the log to serve as a tail.
Ozma herself, during one of her early adventures, had brought this
wooden horse to life, and so she was much attached to the queer animal
and had shod the bottoms of its wooden legs with plates of gold so
they would not wear out. The Sawhorse was a swift and willing
traveler, and though it could talk if need arose, it seldom said
anything unless spoken to. When the Sawhorse was harnessed to the Red
Wagon there were no reins to guide him because all that was needed was
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