| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "There's nothing the matter with me, Mrs. Klopton," I rebelled.
"I was only thinking out loud. Confound that cloth: it's trickling
all over me!" I gave it a fling, and heard it land with a soggy
thud on the floor.
"Thinking out loud is delirium," Mrs. Klopton said imperturbably.
"A fresh doth, Euphemia."
This time she held it on with a firm pressure that I was too weak
to resist. I expostulated feebly that I was drowning, which she
also laid to my mental exaltation, and then I finally dropped into
a damp sleep. It was probably midnight when I roused again. I had
been dreaming of the wreck, and it was inexpressibly comforting to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: And sometimes it would be a lump of coal, which showed nothing; and
then he would say, "This can never be, for at least there is the
seeming". And sometimes it would be a touchstone indeed, beautiful
in hue, adorned with polishing, the light inhabiting its sides; and
when he found this, he would beg the thing, and the persons of that
place would give it him, for all men were very generous of that
gift; so that at the last he had his wallet full of them, and they
chinked together when he rode; and when he halted by the side of
the way he would take them out and try them, till his head turned
like the sails upon a windmill.
"A murrain upon this business!" said the elder son, "for I perceive
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The young played and frolicked about among the trees and
bushes. Some of the adults lay prone upon the soft mat of
dead and decaying vegetation which covered the ground,
while others turned over pieces of fallen branches and clods
of earth in search of the small bugs and reptiles which
formed a part of their food.
Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit,
nuts, small birds, and eggs.
They had passed an hour or so thus when Kerchak called
them together, and, with a word of command to them to
follow him, set off toward the sea.
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