| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: down to that fever-hole."
She laughed ironically. "To better themselves! It's
worse up on the Mountain. Bash Hyatt married the
daughter of the farmer that used to own the brown
house. That was him by the stove, I suppose."
Harney seemed to find nothing to say and she went on:
"I saw you take out a dollar to give to that poor
woman. Why did you put it back?"
He reddened, and leaned forward to flick a swamp-fly
from the horse's neck. "I wasn't sure----"
"Was it because you knew they were my folks, and
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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: well as Flaubert, and as well as me, that it is NEVER DONE; in
other words, it is a torment of the pit, usually neglected by the
bards who (lucky beggars!) approached the Styx in measure. I speak
bitterly at the moment, having just detected in myself the last
fatal symptom, three blank verses in succession - and I believe,
God help me, a hemistich at the tail of them; hence I have deposed
the labourer, come out of hell by my private trap, and now write to
you from my little place in purgatory. But I prefer hell: would I
could always dig in those red coals - or else be at sea in a
schooner, bound for isles unvisited: to be on shore and not to
work is emptiness - suicidal vacancy.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: Sawhorse, the entire party proceeded upon its way, leaving the giant
to pound the path behind them.
11. The Nome King
By and by, when they drew near to the mountain that blocked their path
and which was the furthermost edge of the Kingdom of Ev, the way grew
dark and gloomy for the reason that the high peaks on either side shut
out the sunshine. And it was very silent, too, as there were no birds
to sing or squirrels to chatter, the trees being left far behind them
and only the bare rocks remaining.
Ozma and Dorothy were a little awed by the silence, and all the others
were quiet and grave except the Sawhorse, which, as it trotted along
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