| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: Riley kid and dey all pitched on me."
Some Rum Alley children now came forward. The party stood for
a moment exchanging vainglorious remarks with Devil's Row. A few
stones were thrown at long distances, and words of challenge passed
between small warriors. Then the Rum Alley contingent turned
slowly in the direction of their home street. They began to give,
each to each, distorted versions of the fight. Causes of retreat
in particular cases were magnified. Blows dealt in the fight were
enlarged to catapultian power, and stones thrown were alleged to
have hurtled with infinite accuracy. Valor grew strong again,
and the little boys began to swear with great spirit.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: Angara. It seemed probable that the fugitives could not
reach it before three or four o'clock in the evening. This
did not trouble them; on the contrary, for they would then
descend the river during the night, and the darkness would
also favor their entrance into Irkutsk.
The only anxiety exhibited at times by the old boatman was
concerning the formation of ice on the surface of the water.
The night had been excessively cold; pieces of ice could
be seen drifting towards the West. Nothing was to be
dreaded from these, since they could not drift into the
Angara, having already passed the mouth; but pieces from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: boy does not seem to profit, but that way your duty lies, for which
you are paid, and you must persevere. Education has always seemed
to me one of the few possible and dignified ways of life. A
sailor, a shepherd, a schoolmaster - to a less degree, a soldier -
and (I don't know why, upon my soul, except as a sort of
schoolmaster's unofficial assistant, and a kind of acrobat in
tights) an artist, almost exhaust the category.
If I had to begin again - I know not - SI JEUNESSE SAVAIT, SI
VIEILLESSE POUVAIT . . . I know not at all - I believe I should try
to honour Sex more religiously. The worst of our education is that
Christianity does not recognise and hallow Sex. It looks askance
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