| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: vessel being light, and having but little hold of the water,
no top-rigging, with excellent ground-tackle, and everything
being fresh and new, they felt perfect confidence in their
situation.
It being impossible to open any of the hatches in the
fore part of the ship in communicating with the deck, the
watch was changed by passing through the several berths to the
companion-stair leading to the quarter-deck. The writer,
therefore, made the best of his way aft, and, on a second
attempt to look out, he succeeded, and saw indeed an
astonishing sight. The sea or waves appeared to be ten or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: paused, as if to consider how this could best be proved. And here,
with all possible deference to Bruno as a Shakespearian critic, I must
express my opinion that the poet did not mean his three great tragic
heroes to be so strangely alike in their personal habits; nor do I
believe that he would have accepted the faculty of turning
head-over-heels as any proof at all of royal descent. Yet it appeared
that King Lear, after deep meditation, could think of no other argument
by which to prove his kingship: and, as this was the last of the 'Bits'
of Shakespeare ("We never do more than three," Sylvie explained in a
whisper), Bruno gave the audience quite a long series of somersaults
before he finally retired, leaving the enraptured Frogs all crying out
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: them down, and consulting the parchment of malice, proceeded
to create. But false as was all they set up, the time
would cry it true.
It was reasonable that I should find the day gray.
Study and study and study, year on year, and at last
image a great thing, just under the rim of the mind's ocean,
sending up for those who will look streamers above horizon,
streamers of colored and wonderful light! Study and reason
and with awe and delight take light from above. Dream
of good news for one and all, of life given depth and brought
into music, dream of giving the given, never holding it back,
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