| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: cover us with dust, to swirl the stable-yard into our
faces. Great swarms of flies buzzed and lit and stung.
Wes, disgusted, went over to where a solitary cow-
puncher was engaged in shoeing a horse. Shortly
we saw Wes pressed into service to hold the horse's
hoof. He raised a pathetic face to us, the big round
drops chasing each other down it as fast as rain. We
grinned and felt better.
The fierce perpendicular rays of the sun beat down.
The air under the shed grew stuffier and more
oppressive, but it was the only patch of shade in all that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: never have heard them. My own belief is that the senses, and I
may add the semi-spiritual part of us, are much more acute when
we lie half bound in the bonds of sleep, than when we are what is
called wide awake. Doubtless when we are quite bound they attain
the limits of their power and, I think, sail at times to the
uttermost ends of being. But unhappily of their experiences we
remember nothing when we awake. In half sleep it is different;
then we do retain some recollection.
In this curious condition of mind it seemed to me that Rodd said
to Marnham--
"Why have you brought these men here?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: to flourish in parks and public places - a compound
of gallantry and hope, tempered with respect for the
policeman on the beat. In a pleasant voice, be risked
an inconsequent remark upon the weather that in-
troductory topic responsible for so much of the
world's unhappiness-and stood poised for a mo-
ment, awaiting his fate.
The girl looked him over leisurely; at his ordinary,
neat dress and his features distinguished by nothing
particular in the way of expression.
"You may sit down, if you like," she said, in a
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