| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: cigar glowing between his lips, Captain Nares acknowledged
our previous acquaintance with a succinct nod. Behind him
again, in the top of the stairway, a knot of sailors, the new crew
of the Norah Creina, stood polishing the wall with back and
elbow. These I left without to their reflections. But our two
officers I carried at once into the office, where (taking Jim by
the shoulder) I shook him slowly into consciousness. He sat
up, all abroad for the moment, and stared on the new captain.
"Jim," said I, "this is Captain Nares. Captain, Mr. Pinkerton."
Nares repeated his curt nod, still without speech; and I thought
he held us both under a watchful scrutiny.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: thrill as his SENSATIONS D'ITALIE. If (as I imagine) my cut-and-
dry literature would be death to him, and worse than death -
journalism - be silent on the point. For I have a great curiosity
to know him, and if he doesn't know my work, I shall have the
better chance of making his acquaintance. I read THE PUPIL the
other day with great joy; your little boy is admirable; why is
there no little boy like that unless he hails from the Great
Republic?
Here I broke off, and wrote Bourget a dedication; no use resisting;
it's a love affair. O, he's exquisite, I bless you for the gift of
him. I have really enjoyed this book as I - almost as I - used to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: and under the coercion of the Antichrist commit, without saying
anything about it to the priests and monks! It can,however, be
easily proven that there has always been a great deal of secret
murmuring and complaining against the clergy throughout the world,
and that they are not treating Christendom properly. And the
papal asses have courageously withstood such complaining with fire
and sword, even to the present day. This murmuring proves how
happy Christians have been over these blasphemies, and how right
they have been in doing them!
So out with it, you papal asses! Say that this is the teaching of
Christendom: these stinking lies which you villains and traitors
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