| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: intolerably close. I was feeling very limp and languid.
Perhaps, thought I, it was the heat which had wilted
Blackie's debonair spirits.
"It has been a long time since we've had a talk-talk,
Blackie. I've missed you. Also you look just a wee bit
green around the edges. I'm thinking a vacation wouldn't
hurt you."
Blackie's lean brown forefinger caressed the bowl of
his favorite pipe. His eyes, that had been gazing out
across the roofs beyond his window, came back to me, and
there was in them a curious and quizzical expression as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: They looked for nests. There was a jenny wren's in the hedge
by the orchard.
"I DO want you to see this," said Mrs. Leivers.
He crouched down and carefully put his finger through the
thorns into the round door of the nest.
"It's almost as if you were feeling inside the live body
of the bird," he said, "it's so warm. They say a bird makes
its nest round like a cup with pressing its breast on it.
Then how did it make the ceiling round, I wonder?"
The nest seemed to start into life for the two women.
After that, Miriam came to see it every day. It seemed so close
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: the other. Our bedding was unpacked and placed at our disposal. We made our
beds. After that I kept my eyes open and did not miss anything.
"Leslie, I'm going to treat you and Ward white," said Stockton. "You'll
have good grub. Herky-Jerky's the best cook this side of Holston, and
you'll be left untied in the daytime. But if either of you attempts to get
away it means a leg shot off. Do you get that?"
"All right, Stockton; that's pretty square of you, considering," replied
Dick. "You're a decent sort of chap to be mixed up with a thief like Buell.
I'm sorry."
Stockton turned away at this rather abruptly. Then Bill appeared on the
wall above, and began to throw down firewood. Bud returned from the canyon,
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