| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: supper."
After supper, with the idle curiosity of the seafarer, we pulled
ashore in a fine moonlight, and landed on Middle Brook's
Island. A flat beach surrounded it upon all sides; and the midst
was occupied by a thicket of bushes, the highest of them
scarcely five feet high, in which the sea-fowl lived. Through
this we tried at first to strike; but it were easier to cross
Trafalgar Square on a day of demonstration than to invade
these haunts of sleeping sea-birds. The nests sank, and the
eggs burst under footing; wings beat in our faces, beaks
menaced our eyes, our minds were confounded with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: Raoul gently placed his hand on Buckingham's shoulder. "One
word, my lord," he said.
"My right, my right, first of all," exclaimed the fiery
young man.
"It is precisely upon that point I wish to have the honor of
addressing a word to you."
"Very well, monsieur, but let your remarks be brief."
"One question is all I ask; you can hardly expect me to be
briefer."
"Speak, monsieur, I am listening."
"Are you, or is the Duke of Orleans, going to marry the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa"
and "momma." It is certainly a new species. This resemblance to
words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose
or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and
is a thing which no other bear can do. This imitation of speech,
taken together with general absence of fur and entire absence of
tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear. The
further study of it will be exceedingly interesting. Meantime I
will go off on a far expedition among the forests of the North and
make an exhaustive search. There must certainly be another one
somewhere, and this one will be less dangerous when it has company
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