| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: was a little Bible, to carry in a plaid-neuk. That which he had
called round, I found to be a shilling piece; and the third,
which was to help me so wonderfully both in health and sickness
all the days of my life, was a little piece of coarse yellow
paper, written upon thus in red ink:
"TO MAKE LILLY OF THE VALLEY WATER.--Take the flowers of lilly of
the valley and distil them in sack, and drink a spooneful or two
as there is occasion. It restores speech to those that have the
dumb palsey. It is good against the Gout; it comforts the heart
and strengthens the memory; and the flowers, put into a Glasse,
close stopt, and set into ane hill of ants for a month, then take
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "The article of Chastity is one:
"I. Every forester, being Diana's forester and minion of
the moon, shall commend himself to the grace of the Virgin,
and shall have the gift of continency on pain of expulsion:
that the article of chivalry may be secure from infringement,
and maids, wives, and widows pass without fear through the forest.
"The article of Courtesy is one:
"I. No one shall miscall a forester. He who calls Robin Robert of Huntingdon,
or salutes him by any other title or designation whatsoever except
plain Robin Hood; or who calls Marian Matilda Fitzwater, or salutes her
by any other title or designation whatsoever except plain Maid Marian;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: shave."
" Congratulate hell! I might have been dead and rotten and no
thanks to you, you--!" And thereat John Gordon delivered himself
of a vigorous flood of English, terse, intensive, denunciative,
and composed solely of expletives and adjectives.
"Simply creased me," he went on when he had eased himself
sufficiently. "Ever crease cattle, Taylor?"
"Yes, suh, many a time down in God's country."
"Just so. That's what happened to me. Bullet just grazed the
base of my skull at the top of the neck. Stunned me but no harm
done." He turned to the bound man. "Get up, Jan. I'm going to
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