| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: The congregation returned to the hotel to put down their
impressions in diaries and note-books, which they wrote up
ostentatiously in the verandas. It was a sweltering hot day,
albeit we stood some-what higher than the level of Simla, and I
left that raw pine creaking caravansary for the cool shade of a
clump of pines between whose trunks glimmered tents.
A batch of United States troopers came down the road and flung
themselves across the country into their rough lines. The
Melican cavalryman can ride, though he keeps his accoutrements
pig-fashion and his horse cow-fashion.
I was free of that camp in five minutes--free to play with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: felt that he was guilty of such motive. Had he not been unable
to put this Ray Longstreth out of his mind? There seemed to be
scorn in her eyes now. And somehow that checked his
embarrassment.
"Miss Longstreth, will you let me search the house?" he asked.
"No."
"Then--I regret to say--I'll do so without your permission."
"You'll not dare!" she flashed. She stood erect, her bosom
swelling.
"Pardon me, yes, I will."
"Who are you?" she demanded, suddenly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: could stand against him. His father was much disquieted by this
overweening conceit, and the flippancy with which he spoke of
such a serious thing as war, and solemnly declared that if ever
Kua was appointed general, he would bring ruin on the armies of
Chao. This was the man who, in spite of earnest protests from
his own mother and the veteran statesman Lin Hsiang-ju, was now
sent to succeed Lien P`o. Needless to say, he proved no match
for the redoubtable Po Ch`i and the great military power of
Ch`in. He fell into a trap by which his army was divided into
two and his communications cut; and after a desperate resistance
lasting 46 days, during which the famished soldiers devoured one
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