| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: profane and embarrassed, and the initiated slatting the floor
with their tails in unison and their faces transfigured with a
holy joy.
And it was the same with phrases. She would drag home a whole phrase,
if it had a grand sound, and play it six nights and two matinees,
and explain it a new way every time--which she had to, for all she
cared for was the phrase; she wasn't interested in what it meant,
and knew those dogs hadn't wit enough to catch her, anyway.
Yes, she was a daisy! She got so she wasn't afraid of anything,
she had such confidence in the ignorance of those creatures.
She even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: before.
Cautiously he slid from his bunk to the floor. It was with
difficulty that he kept his feet. Still that might be but the
effects of the liquor. At last he reached the table to which he
clung for support while he extended one hand toward the
lamp.
There was no longer any doubt! The lamp was beating
back and forth like the clapper of a great bell. Where was he?
Billy sought a window. He found some little round, glass-covered
holes near the low ceiling at one side of the room. It
was only at the greatest risk to life and limb that he managed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: apprehensions are, however, premature; the instability which
affects political institutions is of two kinds, which ought not
to be confounded: the first, which modifies secondary laws, is
not incompatible with a very settled state of society; the other
shakes the very foundations of the Constitution, and attacks the
fundamental principles of legislation; this species of
instability is always followed by troubles and revolutions, and
the nation which suffers under it is in a state of violent
transition.
Experience shows that these two kinds of legislative
instability have no necessary connection; for they have been
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