| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: came to their senses. They would have drowned there, had no one rescued them.
When Paul Tichlorne entered college, he let it be generally understood that he
was going in for the social sciences. Lloyd Inwood, entering at the same time,
elected to take the same course. But Paul had had it secretly in mind all the
time to study the natural sciences, specializing on chemistry, and at the last
moment he switched over. Though Lloyd had already arranged his year's work and
attended the first lectures, he at once followed Paul's lead and went in for
the natural sciences and especially for chemistry. Their rivalry soon became a
noted thing throughout the university. Each was a spur to the other, and they
went into chemistry deeper than did ever students before--so deep, in fact,
that ere they took their sheepskins they could have stumped any chemistry or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 7: 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8: 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
Genesis 8: 2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.
Genesis 8: 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
Genesis 8: 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8: 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Genesis 8: 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8: 7 And he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis 8: 8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
Genesis 8: 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: was not like the same boy; he was a young man already, with a
sunburned face, and a something in his expression that told of deep
purpose.
When October came, Mme. Willemsens could only rise at noon. The
sunshine, reflected by the surface of the Loire, and stored up by the
rocks, raised the temperature of the air till it was almost as warm
and soft as the atmosphere of the Bay of Naples, for which reason the
faculty recommend the place of abode. At mid-day she came out to sit
under the shade of green leaves with the two boys, who never wandered
from her now. Lessons had come to an end. Mother and children wished
to live the life of heart and heart together, with no disturbing
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