| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: station hands mustered every morning to the sound of the bell. That
morning nobody came. Kayerts turned out also, yawning. Across the yard
they saw Makola come out of his hut, a tin basin of soapy water in his
hand. Makola, a civilized nigger, was very neat in his person. He
threw the soapsuds skilfully over a wretched little yellow cur he had,
then turning his face to the agent's house, he shouted from the
distance, "All the men gone last night!"
They heard him plainly, but in their surprise they both yelled out
together: "What!" Then they stared at one another. "We are in a proper
fix now," growled Carlier. "It's incredible!" muttered Kayerts. "I
will go to the huts and see," said Carlier, striding off. Makola
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: land, and well worth the seeing? Look at all these jewels and
this gold, as plenty as fruits and flowers at home. :You may take
what you please; but while you are gathering them I have another
matter after which I must look. Wait for me here, and by-and-by I
will be back again."
So saying, she turned and left the prince, going towards the
castle back of the trees.
But the prince was a prince, and not a common man; he cared
nothing for gold and jewels. What he did care for was to see
where the queen went, and why she had brought him to this strange
land. So, as soon as she had fairly gone, he followed after.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: mother's kraal, which she granted to me, saying that I need not return
until my mother was buried.
"So I went. But, oh! my mother took long to die. Whole moons passed
before I shut her eyes, and all this while she would not let me go; nor,
indeed, did I wish to leave her whom I loved. At length it was over,
and then came the days of mourning, and after those some more days of
rest, and after them again the days of the division of the cattle, so
that in the end six moons or more had gone by before I returned to the
service of the Princess Nandie, and found that Mameena was now the
second wife of the lord Saduko. Also I found that the child of the lady
Nandie was dead, and that Masapo, the first husband of Mameena, had been
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