| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: which was to consider the new theses of the Central
Committee of the party with regard to Industrial
Conscription. Radek was going to defend the position of the
Central Committee, Larin to defend his own. Both are old
friends. As Radek said to me, he intended to destroy Larin's
position, but not, if he could help it, prevent Larin being
nominated among the Jaroslavl delegates to All-Russian
Conference which was in preparation. Larin, whose work
keeps him continually traveling, has his own car, specially
arranged so that his uninterrupted labor shall have as
little effect as possible on his dangerously frail body. Radek
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: This is most important, and must be understood at once. If
it is next Christmas, I could not go to Ceylon, for lack of
gold, and you would have to adopt one of the following
alternatives: 1st, either come straight on here and pass a
month with us; 'tis the rainy season, but we have often
lovely weather. Or (2nd) come to Hawaii and I will meet you
there. Hawaii is only a week's sail from S. Francisco,
making only about sixteen days on the heaving ocean; and the
steamers run once a fortnight, so that you could turn round;
and you could thus pass a day or two in the States - a
fortnight even - and still see me. But I have sworn to take
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: priest had turned pale and faltered when the question
whether Celia would escape the general doom of her family
came up. It was not a merely pastoral agitation that,
he felt sure.
A hundred obscure hints, doubts, stray little suspicions,
crowded upward together in his thoughts. It became apparent
to him now that from the outset he had been conscious
of something queer--yes, from that very first day when he
saw the priest and Celia together, and noted their glance
of recognition inside the house of death. He realized now,
upon reflection, that the tone of other people, his own
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