| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: water, if any could be found. I desired his leave to go with
them, that I might see the country, and make what discoveries I
could. When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any
sign of inhabitants. Our men therefore wandered on the shore to
find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about
a mile on the other side, where I observed the country all barren
and rocky. I now began to be weary, and seeing nothing to
entertain my curiosity, I returned gently down towards the creek;
and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men already got into
the boat, and rowing for life to the ship. I was going to halloo
after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: Her heart jumped and then stood still. He was there, a
few feet away; and while her soul was tossing on seas
of woe he had been quietly sitting at his drawing-
board. The sight of those two hands, moving with their
usual skill and precision, woke her out of her dream.
Her eyes were opened to the disproportion between what
she had felt and the cause of her agitation; and she
was turning away from the window when one hand abruptly
pushed aside the drawing-board and the other flung down
the pencil.
Charity had often noticed Harney's loving care of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: At last the fisherman's anger boiled over. "Very well," said he,
spitting his words at her; "if you will drive me out into the
night, I suppose I will have to go." And then he spoke the words
that so many men say: "Many a man has come to trouble by
following his wife's advice."
Then down he took his fur cap and up he took his nets, and off he
and the old man marched through the moonlight, their shadows
bobbing along like black spiders behind them.
Well, on they went, out from the town and across the fields and
through the woods, until at last they came to a dreary, lonesome
desert, where nothing was to be seen but gray rocks and weeds and
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