| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: ease, "A stiff climb," I added.
"Yes," replied the leader; "but we have to thank you for this
path."
I did not like the man's tone. None of us liked it. He did
not seem embarrassed by the meeting, but threw us his remarks
like favours, and strode magisterially by us towards the
shaft and tunnel.
Presently we heard his voice raised to his companion. "We
drifted every sort of way, but couldn't strike the ledge."
Then again: "It pinched out here." And once more: "Every
minor that ever worked upon it says there's bound to be a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: its sides, just as he himself was doing. He made it a mocking bow,
and it returned him a low reverence. He went towards it, and it
came to meet him, copying each step that he made, and stopping when
he stopped himself. He shouted with amusement, and ran forward,
and reached out his hand, and the hand of the monster touched his,
and it was as cold as ice. He grew afraid, and moved his hand
across, and the monster's hand followed it quickly. He tried to
press on, but something smooth and hard stopped him. The face of
the monster was now close to his own, and seemed full of terror.
He brushed his hair off his eyes. It imitated him. He struck at
it, and it returned blow for blow. He loathed it, and it made
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: with an official manner and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles,
called on me one day and made inquiries, at first circuitous,
afterwards suavely pressing, about what he was pleased to
denominate certain `documents.' I was not surprised, because I
had had two rows with the manager on the subject out there.
I had refused to give up the smallest scrap out of that package,
and I took the same attitude with the spectacled man.
He became darkly menacing at last, and with much heat argued that
the Company had the right to every bit of information about its
`territories.' And said he, `Mr. Kurtz's knowledge of unexplored
regions must have been necessarily extensive and peculiar--
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