| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: saying, they haven't got here in time."
"Did anybody send 'em word?"
"Oh, yes; a month or two ago, when Peter was
first took; because Peter said then that he sorter felt
like he warn't going to get well this time. You see,
he was pretty old, and George's g'yirls was too young
to be much company for him, except Mary Jane, the
red-headed one; and so he was kinder lonesome after
George and his wife died, and didn't seem to care
much to live. He most desperately wanted to see
Harvey -- and William, too, for that matter -- because
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Truth I think not so much of; for I do not know it. And I could
wish in my heart that I had not published this paper, if it
troubles folk too much: all have not the same digestion, nor the
same sight of things. And it came over me with special pain that
perhaps this article (which I was at the pains to send to her)
might give dismalness to my GAMEKEEPER AT HOME. Well, I cannot
take back what I have said; but yet I may add this. If my view be
everything but the nonsense that it may be - to me it seems self-
evident and blinding truth - surely of all things it makes this
world holier. There is nothing in it but the moral side - but the
great battle and the breathing times with their refreshments. I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: But Nayland Smith was close behind as I raced along a covered gangway,
in a purer air, and at my heels when I crashed open a door at
the end and almost fell into the room beyond.
What I saw were merely a dirty table, with some odds and ends upon
it of which I was too excited to take note, an oil-lamp swung
by a brass chain above, and a man sitting behind the table.
But from the moment that my gaze rested upon the one who sat there,
I think if the place had been an Aladdin's palace I should have
had no eyes for any of its wonders.
He wore a plain yellow robe, of a hue almost identical with that
of his smooth, hairless countenance. His hands were large,
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu |
