| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: strong for him, and at last he panted out, `My dear! I really
MUST get a thinner pencil. I can't manage this one a bit; it
writes all manner of things that I don't intend--'
`What manner of things?' said the Queen, looking over the book
(in which Alice had put `THE WHITE KNIGHT IS SLIDING DOWN THE
POKER. HE BALANCES VERY BADLY') `That's not a memorandum of
YOUR feelings!'
There was a book lying near Alice on the table, and while she
sat watching the White King (for she was still a little anxious
about him, and had the ink all ready to throw over him, in case
he fainted again), she turned over the leaves, to find some part
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: graceful creature that ever was seen, looking down, with her chin
upon her hand, and paddling with her feet in the water. And when
they came to her she looked up, and behold it was Ellie.
"Oh, Miss Ellie," said he, "how you are grown!"
"Oh, Tom," said she, "how you are grown too!"
And no wonder; they were both quite grown up - he into a tall man,
and she into a beautiful woman.
"Perhaps I may be grown," she said. "I have had time enough; for I
have been sitting here waiting for you many a hundred years, till I
thought you were never coming."
"Many a hundred years?" thought Tom; but he had seen so much in his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: solitude. But the tranquillity was only local; DIN and PERANDI
still flowed in other quarters: and we had one more sight of
Gilbert Island violence. In the church, where we had wandered
photographing, we were startled by a sudden piercing outcry. The
scene, looking forth from the doors of that great hall of shadow,
was unforgettable. The palms, the quaint and scattered houses, the
flag of the island streaming from its tall staff, glowed with
intolerable sunshine. In the midst two women rolled fighting on
the grass. The combatants were the more easy to be distinguished,
because the one was stripped to the RIDI and the other wore a
holoku (sacque) of some lively colour. The first was uppermost,
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