| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: the pigs out. Suellen, you and Carreen fill the baskets with as
much food as you can carry and get to the woods. Mammy, put the
silver in the well again. And Pork! Pork, listen to me, don't
stand there like that! Take Pa with you. Don't ask me where!
Anywhere! Go with Pork, Pa. That's a sweet pa."
Even in her frenzy she thought what the sight of bluecoats might do
to Gerald's wavering mind. She stopped and wrung her hands and the
frightened sobbing of little Wade who was clutching Melanie's skirt
added to her panic.
"What shall I do, Scarlett?" Melanie's voice was calm amid the
wailing and tears and scurrying feet. Though her face was paper
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: looked into. ``I thought they were too inquisitive. I thought
if I told them a few lies they would leave me alone. Everybody
has to know everything. I forget half of what I'm to say. I
don't know why I stole that watch. I would have brought it back
home if he had not taken it on me. I never told anybody that I
wanted to go to the reform school. I was afraid to go home
because I was afraid I would get a good scolding. I think I have
told all the truth to the officers since the first. I was
ashamed to tell it, that's the whole truth. That's the truth,
there was no one with me this other night. I did not meet a soul
I knew. I went out to the South Park. I had never been there
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: within five miles or so can hear a lion's roar.
Otherwise I doubt if he is apt often to get the full-voiced,
genuine article. The peculiar questioning cough of early evening
is resonant and deep in vibration, but it is a call rather than a
roar. No lion is fool enough to make a noise when he is stalking.
Then afterward, when full fed, individuals may open up a few
times, but only a few times, in sheer satisfaction, apparently,
at being well fed. The menagerie row at feeding time, formidable
as it sounds within the echoing walls, is only a mild and gentle
hint. But when seven or eight lions roar merely to see how much
noise they can make, as when driving game, or trying to stampede
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