| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: anybody stirring, pull your slouch down over your face
so they won't know you. Then you go and slip in the
back way to the kitchen and git the pipe, and lay this
piece of paper on the kitchen table, and put something
on it to hold it, and then slide out and git away, and
don't let Aunt Polly catch a sight of you, nor nobody
else. Then you jump for the balloon and shove for
Mount Sinai three hundred miles an hour. You won't
have lost more than an hour. You'll start back at 7 or
8 A.M., village time, and be here in 24 hours, arriving
at 2 or 3 P.M., Mount Sinai time."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: I had on the first opportunity spoken to her of Geoffrey Dawling,
and she had listened to my story so far as she had the art of such
patience, asking me indeed more questions about him than I could
answer; then she had capped my anecdote with others much more
striking, the disclosure of effects produced in the most
extraordinary quarters: on people who had followed her into
railway carriages; guards and porters even who had literally stuck
there; others who had spoken to her in shops and hung about her
house door; cabmen, upon her honour, in London, who, to gaze their
fill at her, had found excuses to thrust their petrifaction through
the very glasses of four-wheelers. She lost herself in these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: particularly you boys who have lost so--so much."
"I lost all, except my life--and I wish to God I'd lost that," he replied,
gloomily.
"Oh, don't talk so!" implored Carley in distress. "Forgive me, Rust, if I
hurt you. But I must tell you--that--that Glenn wrote me--you'd lost your girl.
Oh, I'm sorry! It is dreadful for you now. But if you got well--and went to
work--and took up life where you left it--why soon your pain would grow
easier. And you'd find some happiness yet."
"Never for me in this world."
"But why, Rust, why? You're no--no--Oh! I mean you have intelligence and
courage. Why isn't there anything left for you?"
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