| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back
up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:
'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,
Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,'
and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your
eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk
home without speaking to anybody. Because if you
speak the charm's busted."
"Well, that sounds like a good way; but that ain't
the way Bob Tanner done."
"No, sir, you can bet he didn't, becuz he's the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: start lifting the small cable. The end of the large one has even
now regained its sandy bed; and three buoys - one to grapnel foul
of the supposed small cable, two to the big cable - are dipping
about on the surface. One more - a flag-buoy - will soon follow,
and then straight for shore.
'June 20.
'It is an ill-wind, &c. I have an unexpected opportunity of
forwarding this engineering letter; for the craft which brought out
our Italian sailors must return to Cagliari to-night, as the little
cable will take us nearly to Galita, and the Italian skipper could
hardly find his way from thence. To-day - Sunday - not much rest.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Rain added to a river that is rank
Perforce will force it overflow the bank. 72
Still she entreats, and prettily entreats,
For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale;
Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets,
'Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale; 76
Being red she loves him best; and being white,
Her best is better'd with a more delight.
Look how he can, she cannot choose but love;
And by her fair immortal hand she swears, 80
From his soft bosom never to remove,
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