| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: fashion of those days) to take Yeo's deposition concerning last
night's affray. Moreover, when Shallow came, he refused to take
the depositions, because they ought to have been made before a
brother Shallow at Lydford; and in the wrangling which ensued, was
very near finding out what Amyas (fearing fresh loss of time and
worse evils beside) had commanded to be concealed, namely, the
presence of Jesuits in that Moorland Utopia. Then, in broadest
Devon--
"And do you call this Christian conduct, sir, to set a quiet man
like me upon they Gubbings, as if I was going to risk my precious
life--no, nor ever a constable to Okehampton neither? Let Lydfor'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: the cool, dark forest.
Every stone and log, every bit of hard ground in my path, served to help
hide my trail. Herky-Jerky very likely had the cowboy's skill at finding
tracks, but I left few traces of my presence on that long slope. Only an
Indian or a hound could have trailed me. The timber was small and rough
brush grew everywhere. Presently I saw light ahead, and I came to an open
space. It was a wide swath in the forest. At once I recognized the path of
an avalanche. It sloped up clean and bare to the gray cliffs far above.
Below was a great mass of trees and rocks, all tangled in black splintered
ruin. I pushed on across the path, into the forest, and up and down the
hollows. The sun had gone down behind the mountain, and the shadows were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crowd by Gustave le Bon: adolescence and youth, the theoretical and pedagogic preparation
by books on the school benches has lengthened out and become
overcharged in view of the examination, the degree, the diploma,
and the certificate, and solely in this view, and by the worst
methods, by the application of an unnatural and anti-social
regime, by the excessive postponement of the practical
apprenticeship, by our boarding-school system, by artificial
training and mechanical cramming, by overwork, without thought
for the time that is to follow, for the adult age and the
functions of the man, without regard for the real world on which
the young man will shortly be thrown, for the society in which we
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