| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: parted company?"
"I shall return somewhere - perhaps here."
Maskull went close up to her, in order to study her face better.
"Shall you sink back into - the old state?"
"No, Maskull, thank heaven."
"Then how will you live?"
Sullenbode calmly removed the hand which he had placed on her arm.
There was a sort of swirling flame in her eyes. "And who said I
would go on living?"
Maskull blinked at her in bewilderment. A few moments passed before
he spoke again. "You women are a sacrificing lot. You know I can't
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: putting in at any port whatever - because where we could give a
good account of ourselves, could prove where we were when the ship
put in, of whom we bought her, and the like; and what was more than
all the rest, if we were put upon the necessity of bringing it
before the proper judges, we should be sure to have some justice,
and not to be hanged first and judged afterwards.
I was some time of my partner's opinion; but after a little more
serious thinking, I told him I thought it was a very great hazard
for us to attempt returning to Bengal, for that we were on the
wrong side of the Straits of Malacca, and that if the alarm was
given, we should be sure to be waylaid on every side - that if we
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"And smokes a long clay pipe."
"But he chews tobacco."
"Yes, isn't it a pity he will chew that nasty, smelly tobacco? But
K. D. B. will break him of that."
"Oh, is he for K. D. B.?"
"Sent by Providence!" declared Blix. "They were born for each
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