| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: faded to a nondescript neutral colour of their own; his hair below
his narrow felt hat bleached three shades. He did his work, and
figured on his schemes, and smoked his pipe, and occasionally took
little trips to the nearest town, where he spent the day at the
hotel desks reading and answering his letters. The weather was
generally very warm. Thunder-storms were not infrequent. Until the
latter part of August, mosquitoes and black flies were bad.
About the middle of September the crew had worked down as far as
Redding, leaving behind them a river tamed, groomed, and harnessed
for their uses. Remained still the forty miles between Redding and
the Lake to be improved. As, however, navigation for light draught
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: ended by persuading her that any other course would be
madness. She had nothing further to fear from Mr.
Royall. Of this she had declared herself sure, though
she had failed to add, in his exoneration, that he had
twice offered to make her his wife. Her hatred of him
made it impossible, at the moment, for her to say
anything that might partly excuse him in Harney's eyes.
Harney, however, once satisfied of her security, had
found plenty of reasons for urging her to return. The
first, and the most unanswerable, was that she had
nowhere else to go. But the one on which he laid the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "It is my business to settle this dispute, not yours.
You say my island is a part of the Land of Oz, which
you rule, but that is all nonsense, for I've never
heard of the Land of Oz, nor of you. You say you are a
fairy, and that fairies gave you command over me. I
don't believe it! What I do believe is that you are an
impostor and have come here to stir up trouble among my
people, who are already becoming difficult to manage.
You two girls may even be spies of the vile Flatheads,
for all I know, and may be trying to trick me. But
understand this," she added, proudly rising from her
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