| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising
me for my uncontrollable weakness, made me so nervous and
sleepless that I really thought I should become insane. I
understand well those young men murdering their sweethearts,
which appear so often in the papers. Nevertheless I did love her
passionately, and in some ways she did deserve it.
"The queer thing was the sudden and unexpected way in which it
all stopped. I was going to my work after breakfast one morning,
thinking as usual of her and of my misery, when, just as if some
outside power laid hold of me, I found myself turning round and
almost running to my room, where I immediately got out all the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: clamorings of cheers. The men gesticulated and
bellowed in an ecstasy. When they spoke it was
as if they considered their listener to be a mile
away. What hats and caps were left to them
they often slung high in the air.
At one part of the line four men had been
swooped upon, and they now sat as prisoners.
Some blue men were about them in an eager and
curious circle. The soldiers had trapped strange
birds, and there was an examination. A flurry of
fast questions was in the air.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: were collected.
JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM.
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II. INTRODUCTION to THE BLACK DWARF.
The ideal being who is here presented as residing in solitude,
and haunted by a consciousness of his own deformity, and a
suspicion of his being generally subjected to the scorn of his
fellow-men, is not altogether imaginary. An individual existed
many years since, under the author's observation, which suggested
such a character. This poor unfortunate man's name was David
Ritchie, a native of Tweeddale. He was the son of a labourer in
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