| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: here? Don't you realise that this isn't the northern peninsula?
What are you trying to do, any way?"
"Sure I do," replied Orde placidly. "Come along here till I show
you the situation."
Ten minutes later, Daly, relieved in his mind, was standing by the
fire drinking hot coffee and laughing at Orde's description of
Reed's plug hat.
To Orde's satisfaction, the sheriff did not reappear. Reed
evidently now pinned his faith to the State troops.
All night the work went on, the men spelling each other at intervals
of every few hours. By three o'clock the main abutments had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: "Do you write about HIM--do you pry into his life?"
"Ah, that's your aunt's question; it can't be yours!"
I said, in a tone of slightly wounded sensibility.
"All the more reason then that you should answer it.
Do you, please?"
I thought I had allowed for the falsehoods I should have to tell;
but I found that in fact when it came to the point I had not.
Besides, now that I had an opening there was a kind of relief
in being frank. Lastly (it was perhaps fanciful, even fatuous),
I guessed that Miss Tita personally would not in the last resort
be less my friend. So after a moment's hesitation I answered,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: until the day of judgment.
[108] Cox, Manual of Mythology, p. 134.
These examples show that a story-root may be as prolific of
heterogeneous offspring as a word-root. Just as we find the
root spak, "to look," begetting words so various as sceptic,
bishop, speculate, conspicsuous, species, and spice, we must
expect to find a simple representation of the diurnal course
of the sun, like those lyrically given in the Veda, branching
off into stories as diversified as those of Oidipous,
Herakles, Odysseus, and Siegfried. In fact, the types upon
which stories are constructed are wonderfully few. Some clever
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