| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: the name of 'Johnny,' in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted
us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and became
on the strength of that an universal favourite - it takes so little
in this world of shipboard to create a popularity. There was,
besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as 'Irish
Stew,' three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman,
O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of
condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be
American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England;
and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but
ashamed to own his country. He had a sister on board, whom he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: treason, the one on a superior officer, and the other against her
who had appointed him to office and who had been the ruler of the
country for thirty-seven years, either of which would have been
sufficient to have execrated him not only in the eyes of his own
people but of history and of the world. Nay more, had he obeyed
this order, the conservatives would have raised the cry of
rebellion, and an army ten times greater than he could have
mustered, would have crushed Yuan and his little company of
12,500 men, on the plea that he was about to take the throne.
Yuan then did the only wise thing he could have done. He went to
Jung Lu, without whose consent he had no right to move, showed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: Ozma, sympathetically. "But didn't you cut it almost too short?"
"Perhaps so," replied the Wizard. "When a young man I ran away from
home and joined a circus. I used to call myself a Wizard, and do
tricks of ventriloquism."
"What does that mean?" asked the Princess.
"Throwing my voice into any object I pleased, to make it appear that
the object was speaking instead of me. Also I began to make balloon
ascensions. On my balloon and on all the other articles I used in the
circus I painted the two initials: 'O. Z.', to show that those things
belonged to me.
"One day my balloon ran away with me and brought me across the deserts
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