| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: "I reckon I'll only stay a little while," Lassiter was saying.
"An' if you don't mind troublin', I'm hungry. I fetched some
biscuits along, but they're gone. Venters, this place is sure the
wonderfullest ever seen. Them cut steps on the slope! That outlet
into the gorge! An' it's like climbin' up through hell into
heaven to climb through that gorge into this valley! There's a
queer-lookin' rock at the top of the passage. I didn't have time
to stop. I'm wonderin' how you ever found this place. It's sure
interestin'."
During the preparation and eating of dinner Lassiter listened
mostly, as was his wont, and occasionally he spoke in his quaint
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: was really the beginning of the end--and wandered alone with his
thoughts, especially with the one he was least able to keep down.
She was dying and he would lose her; she was dying and his life
would end. He stopped in the Park, into which he had passed, and
stared before him at his recurrent doubt. Away from her the doubt
pressed again; in her presence he had believed her, but as he felt
his forlornness he threw himself into the explanation that, nearest
at hand, had most of a miserable warmth for him and least of a cold
torment. She had deceived him to save him--to put him off with
something in which he should be able to rest. What could the thing
that was to happen to him be, after all, but just this thing that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: Adam pushed the cup gently away and said, entreatingly, "Tell me
about it, Mr. Massey--tell me all about it. Was she there? Have
they begun?"
"Yes, my boy, yes--it's taken all the time since I first went; but
they're slow, they're slow; and there's the counsel they've got
for her puts a spoke in the wheel whenever he can, and makes a
deal to do with cross-examining the witnesses and quarrelling with
the other lawyers. That's all he can do for the money they give
him; and it's a big sum--it's a big sum. But he's a 'cute fellow,
with an eye that 'ud pick the needles out of the hay in no time.
If a man had got no feelings, it 'ud be as good as a demonstration
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