| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: farther, those thrilling silences and whispers of the groves,
surely in Fontainebleau they must be vocal of me and my companions?
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our
delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a
legend.
One generation after another fall like honey-bees upon this
memorable forest, rifle its sweets, pack themselves with vital
memories, and when the theft is consummated depart again into life
richer, but poorer also. The forest, indeed, they have possessed,
from that day forward it is theirs indissolubly, and they will
return to walk in it at night in the fondest of their dreams, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: "Hurry!" she said.
The trouser pockets yielded nothing except a candle end, a
jackknife, a plug of tobacco and a bit of twine. Melanie removed
from the knapsack a small package of coffee which she sniffed as if
it were the sweetest of perfumes, hardtack and, her face changing,
a miniature of a little girl in a gold frame set with seed pearls,
a garnet brooch, two broad gold bracelets with tiny dangling gold
chains, a gold thimble, a small silver baby's cup, gold embroidery
scissors, a diamond solitaire ring and a pair of earrings with
pendant pear-shaped diamonds, which even their unpracticed eyes
could tell were well over a carat each.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: about the three-legged stool, has he? Well, I will just put a
spoke into his wheel for him." And so he began to watch for his
chance to do the soldier an ill turn.
Now, a week or two after the wedding, and after all the gay
doings had ended, a grand hunt was declared, and the king and his
new son-in-law and all the court went to it. That was just such a
chance as the old magician had been waiting for; so the night
before the hunting-party returned he climbed the walls of the
garden, and so came to the wonderful palace that the soldier had
built out of nothing at all, and there stood three men keeping
guard so that no one might enter.
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