| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: we'll dig one."
I says:
"What do we want of a moat when we're going to
snake him out from under the cabin?"
But he never heard me. He had forgot me and
everything else. He had his chin in his hand, thinking.
Pretty soon he sighs and shakes his head; then sighs
again, and says:
"No, it wouldn't do -- there ain't necessity enough
for it."
"For what?" I says.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: is generalship, Hirst? What more did Wellington do on the field
of Waterloo? It's like counting the number of pebbles of a path,
tedious but not difficult."
He was sitting in his bedroom, one leg over the arm of the chair,
and Hirst was writing a letter opposite. Hirst was quick to point
out that all the difficulties remained.
"For instance, here are two women you've never seen. Suppose one
of them suffers from mountain-sickness, as my sister does,
and the other--"
"Oh, the women are for you," Hewet interrupted. "I asked them solely
for your benefit. What you want, Hirst, you know, is the society of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "But they will soon procure a new linchpin. Is that right? And,
oh, Adam, they may be here any moment."
"Not so, my poppet. To get a linchpin, they must find a smith.
All the smiths within a radius of thirty miles are drunk. Yes,
me again. A man has to think of all these little things. I say,
we're giving the walls the time of their life, aren't we? Have
another cigarette?"
"After which I must go to bed."
"As you please, Mistress Eve," said I, reaching for a live coal
to give her a light.
For a little space we sat silent, watching the play of the
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