| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: him but refused it.
"When I start out on my travels," said he,
"I carry along enough square meals to last me
several weeks. Think I'll indulge in one now,
as long as we're stopping anyway."
Saying this, he took a bottle from his pocket
and shook from it a tablet about the size of one
of Ojo's finger-nails.
"That," announced the Shaggy Man, "is a square
meal, in condensed form. Invention of the great
Professor Woggle-Bug, of the Royal College of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: large cap of Mr. Butteridge's with the flaps down over his ears.
And some fur sleeping-boots of Mr. Butteridge's warmed his feet.
The car of the balloon was small and neat, some bags of ballast
the untidiest of its contents, and he had found a light
folding-table and put it at his elbow, and on that was a glass
with champagne. And about him, above and below, was space--such
a clear emptiness and silence of space as only the aeronaut can
experience.
He did not know where he might be drifting, or what might happen
next. He accepted this state of affairs with a serenity
creditable to the Smallways' courage, which one might reasonably
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Be men, be men, or you will spoil all yet!"
The last twenty, or so, of the Indians bore larger baskets, but
more lightly freighted, seemingly with manioc, and maize-bread, and
other food for the party; and after them came, with their bearers
and attendants, just twenty soldiers more, followed by the officer
in charge, who smiled away in his chair, and twirled two huge
mustachios, thinking of nothing less than of the English arrows
which were itching to be away and through his ribs. The ambush was
complete; the only question how and when to begin?
Amyas had a shrinking, which all will understand, from drawing bow
in cool blood on men so utterly unsuspicious and defenceless, even
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