| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: peculiar emotional quality of the song "I Love Thee" seemed to
fill the room as she played. When she swung round on the stool at
its conclusion it was to meet a shining-eyed, musical enthusiast
instead of the villain she had left five minutes earlier.
"Y'u CAN play," was all he said, but the manner of it spoke
volumes.
For nearly an hour he kept her at the piano, and when at last he
let her stop playing he seemed a man transformed.
"You have given me a great pleasure, a very great pleasure, Miss
Messiter," he thanked her warmly, his Western idiom sloughed with
his villainy for the moment. "It has been a good many months
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: down, and running swiftly along a by-path, hangs himself with
equal precaution to a second tree. This time the farmer is
astonished and puzzled; but when for the third time he meets
the same unwonted spectacle, thinking that three suicides in
one morning are too much for easy credence, he leaves his ox
and runs back to see whether the other two bodies are really
where he thought he saw them. While he is framing hypotheses
of witchcraft by which to explain the phenomenon, the Thief
gets away with the ox. In the Hitopadesa the story receives a
finer point. "A Brahman, who had vowed a sacrifice, went to
the market to buy a goat. Three thieves saw him, and wanted to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: workin' up there with a little two-horse crew since January. We
didn't put up more'n a couple hundred thousand."
"Is he breaking out his rollways below?" Orde asked Denning.
"No, sir," struck in Charlie, "he ain't."
"How do you happen to be so wise?" inquired Orde, "Seems to me you
know about as much as old man Solomon."
"Well," explained Charlie, "you see it's like this. When I got back
from the woods last week, I just sort of happened into McNeill's
place. I wasn't drinkin' a drop!" he cried virtuously, in answer to
Orde's smile.
"Of course not," said Orde. "I was just thinking of the last time
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