| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "I want to see the captain," she said.
He pulled back the doors and she entered the room, her heart beating
rapidly, her face flushing with embarrassment and excitement. There
was a close stuffy smell in the room, compounded of the smoking
fire, tobacco fumes, leather, damp woolen uniforms and unwashed
bodies. She had a confused impression of bare walls with torn
wallpaper, rows of blue overcoats and slouch hats hung on nails, a
roaring fire, a long table covered with papers and a group of
officers in blue uniforms with brass buttons.
She gulped once and found her voice. She mustn't let these Yankees
know she was afraid. She must look and be her prettiest and most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: while he stooped to drink at the fountain the purse of gold fell
from his girdle into the tall grass, and he, not seeing it, let
it lie there, and went his way.
Now it chanced that two fagot-makers--the elder by name Ali, the
younger Abdallah--who had been in the woods all day chopping
fagots, came also travelling the same way, and stopped at the
same fountain to drink. There the younger of the two spied the
purse lying in the grass, and picked it up. But when he opened it
and found it full of gold money, he was like one bereft of wits;
he flung his arms, he danced, he shouted, he laughed, he acted
like a madman; for never had he seen so much wealth in all of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: lost in the aching abysms of space? I know but little, yet I tell
you that we are its rulers. I tell you that we, too, are gods, if
only we can aspire and believe. For the doubting and timid there
is naught. For those who see with the eyes of the soul and
stretch out their hands to grasp there is all. Even Bastin will
tell you this."
"But," I said, "life is short. Those worlds are far away, and
you are near."
She became wonderful, mysterious.
"Near I am far," she said; "and far I am near, if only this
love of yours is strong enough to follow and to clasp. And,
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