| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: up with a carbine. The two men locked, wrenching impotently, and fell
together. The carbine's loud shot rang in the room, but did no harm; and
McLean lay sick and panting upon Lusk as Barker rushed in.
"Thank God!" said he, and flung Lusk's pistol down. The man, deranged and
encouraged by drink, had come across the doctor, delayed him, threatened
him with his pistol, and when he had torn it away, had left him suddenly
and vanished. But Barker had feared, and come after him here. He glanced
at the woman slumbering motionless beside the two men. The husband's
brief courage had gone, and he lay beneath McLean, who himself could not
rise. Barker pulled them apart.
"Lin, boy, you're not hurt?" he asked, affectionately, and lifted the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: of opinion that preternatural visitations are either ceased
altogether, or become very rare in our days, I am unwilling to
leave a matter uninvestigated which may concern the life of a
poor distracted being."
"Aweel, aweel, if ye really think that," answered Hobbie
doubtfully--"And it's for certain the very fairies--I mean the
very good neighbours themsells (for they say folk suldna ca' them
fairies) that used to be seen on every green knowe at e'en, are
no half sae often visible in our days. I canna depone to having
ever seen ane mysell, but, I ance heard ane whistle ahint me in
the moss, as like a whaup [Curlew] as ae thing could be like
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: We followed the carriage-road, and had our usual luck;
we traveled under a beating sun, and always saw the shade
leave the shady places before we could get to them.
In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike
a piece of road at its time for being shady. We had a
particularly hot time of it on that particular afternoon,
and with no comfort but what we could get out of the fact
that the peasants at work away up on the steep mountainsides
above our heads were even worse off than we were.
By and by it became impossible to endure the intolerable
glare and heat any longer; so we struck across the ravine
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