| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: of the four great bogies, Self-will, Ignorance, Fear, and Dirt -
for instance:
Measles, Famines,
Monks, Quacks,
Scarlatina, Unpaid bills,
Idols, Tight stays,
Hooping-coughs, Potatoes,
Popes, Bad Wine,
Wars, Despots,
Peacemongers, Demagogues,
And, worst of all, Naughty Boys and Girls.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: are not coming down here unarmed after that racket. I know that
you came in by that door there. Go out that way. I will play the
game for you. I swear it!"
There were footsteps, plainly audible now, out in the main hall.
"Quick!" he urged. "Are we both to be caught? See!" He backed
suddenly toward the window.
"See! I am too far away now to touch that necklace before they get
here. Throw it down, and get behind the portiere of the rear door!"
Mechanically she was retreating. They were almost at the other door
now, those footsteps outside in the main hall. With a backward
spring she reached the portiere. The door handle across the room
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: I have not even met her, and it wouldn't be just the proper thing,
you know, for us to travel together. Of course, it would be all
right--you and I know that; but think of the looks of it, man!"
Pentfield swore under his breath, consigning the looks of it to a
less frigid region than Alaska.
"Now, if you'll just listen and not get astride that high horse of
yours so blamed quick," his partner went on, "you'll see that the
only fair thing under the circumstances is for me to let you go out
this year. Next year is only a year away, and then I can take my
fling."
Pentfield shook his head, though visibly swayed by the temptation.
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