| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: he first received life; and was this his first crime? Alas!
I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight
was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?
No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of
the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air. But I did
not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy
in scenes of evil and despair. I considered the being whom I had
cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect
purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done,
nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose
from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: her in the labour of love.
"Sereny's doin' splendid, ain't she?" said the other girls.
To which the men replied, "You bet! The playin' 's reel nice, and
good 'nough fer anybody--outside o' city folks."
But Serena's repertory was weak, though her spirit was willing.
There was an unspoken sentiment among the men that "The Sweet By and
By" was not quite the best tune in the world for a quadrille. A
Sunday-school hymn, no matter how rapidly it was rendered, seemed to
fall short of the necessary vivacity for a polka. Besides, the
wheezy little organ positively refused to go faster than a certain
gait. Hose Ransom expressed the popular opinion of the instrument,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: Tam Dale to take young solans. This was a business he was weel used
wi', he had been a craigsman frae a laddie, and trustit nane but
himsel'. So there was he hingin' by a line an' speldering on the craig
face, whaur its hieest and steighest. Fower tenty lads were on the
tap, hauldin' the line and mindin' for his signals. But whaur Tam hung
there was naething but the craig, and the sea belaw, and the solans
skirlin and flying. It was a braw spring morn, and Tam whustled as he
claught in the young geese. Mony's the time I've heard him tell of
this experience, and aye the swat ran upon the man.
It chanced, ye see, that Tam keeked up, and he was awaur of a muckle
solan, and the solan pyking at the line. He thocht this by-ordinar and
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