| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: A GOLDEN LAD
(D. V. M.)
"Golden lads and lasses must
Like chimney-sweepers come to dust."
--SHAKESPEARE.
So young, but already the splendor
Of genius robed him about--
Already the dangerous, tender
Regard of the gods marked him out--
(On whom the burden and duty
They bind, at his earliest breath,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: the theory.
Now, in regard to flies there are two theories. The old,
conservative theory is, that on a bright day you should use a dark,
dull fly, because it is less conspicuous. So I followed that theory
first and put on a Great Dun and a Dark Montreal. I cast them
delicately over the fish, but he would not look at them.
Then I perverted myself to the new, radical theory which says that
on a bright day you must use a light, gay fly, because it is more in
harmony with the sky, and therefore less noticeable. Accordingly I
put on a Professor and a Parmacheene Belle; but this combination of
learning and beauty had no attraction for the ouananiche.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: who would meet in Mostaganem at two o'clock that day;
and the captain and the count were on the point of parting
from each other, with a salute of punctilious courtesy,
when Timascheff, as if struck by a sudden thought, said abruptly:
"Perhaps it would be better, captain, not to allow the real
cause of this to transpire?"
"Far better," replied Servadac; "it is undesirable in every way
for any names to be mentioned."
"In that case, however," continued the count, "it will be
necessary to assign an ostensible pretext of some kind.
Shall we allege a musical dispute? a contention in which I
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