| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: and the green banks interspersed with innumerable flowers, sweet to the
scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods;
the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal
rambles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably
shortened by the late setting and early rising of the sun, for I never
ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same
treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
"My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily
master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly
than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in
broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: carry out my plan of action.
From a shed in the garden, I took a pick and shovel; and
thence, by devious paths among the magnolias, led my master
to the entrance of the swamp. I walked first, carrying, as I
was now in duty bound, the tools, and glancing continually
behind me, lest we should be spied upon and followed. When
we were come as far as the beginning of the path, it flashed
into my mind I had forgotten meat; and leaving Mr. Caulder in
the shadow of a tree, I returned alone to the house for a
basket of provisions. Were they for him? I asked myself.
And a voice within me answered, No. While we were face to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: to believe in fairies, and trolls, and elves, and scratlings, and
all strange little people who were said to haunt the mountains and
the caves.
Well, once upon a time, so long ago that no man can tell when, the
land was so much higher, that between England and Ireland, and,
what is more, between England and Norway, was firm dry land. The
country then must have looked--at least we know it looked so in
Norfolk--very like what our moors look like here. There were
forests of Scotch fir, and of spruce too, which is not wild in
England now, though you may see plenty in every plantation. There
were oaks and alders, yews and sloes, just as there are in our
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