| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: Finnegan, who was filling the morning air with one of his
characteristic songs, brightened the horizon up the street to his
left.
Cully's unexpected appearance at that moment produced so
uncomfortable an effect upon Mr. Crimmins that that gentleman fell
instantly back through the barroom door.
The boy's quick eye caught the movement, and it also caught a
moment later, Mr. Crimmins's nose and watery eye peering out again
when their owner had assured himself that his escape had been
unseen. Cully slackened his pace to see what new move Crimmins
would make--but without the slightest sign of recognition on his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation--was waiting
for them on deck. He was only too glad to offer some mangoes
to Aouda, who thanked him very gracefully for them.
At eleven o'clock the Rangoon rode out of Singapore harbour,
and in a few hours the high mountains of Malacca, with their forests,
inhabited by the most beautifully-furred tigers in the world,
were lost to view. Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles
from the island of Hong Kong, which is a little English colony
near the Chinese coast. Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey
in six days, so as to be in time for the steamer which would leave
on the 6th of November for Yokohama, the principal Japanese port.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: dog that sleeps in the High Street. Always was a dog asleep
there--always. Always... I'd like to see the old shop again. I
daresay old Ruck still stands between the sheep at his door,
grinning with all his teeth, and Marbel, silly beggar! comes out
with his white apron on and a pencil stuck behind his ear,
trying to look awake... Wonder if they know it's me? I'd like
'em somehow to know it's me."
"They'll have had the International Tea Company and all sorts of
people cutting them up," I said. "And that dog's been on the
pavement this six years--can't sleep even there, poor dear,
because of the motor-horns and its shattered nerves."
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