| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: closer. At last he lay close beside one of the huts which was
to be the first to claim his attention.
For several moments he lay listening intently for any sound
which might come from within; but there was none. He
crawled to the doorway and peered within. Utter darkness
shrouded and hid the interior.
Billy rose and walked boldly inside. If he could see no one
within, then no one could see him once he was inside the
door. Therefore, so reasoned Billy Byrne, he would have as
good a chance as the occupants of the hut, should they prove
to be enemies.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: hae minded your goats, and coupled up the dogs. I'm sure I would
rather they had worried the primest wether in my faulds.--Come,
man, forget and forgie. I'm e'en as vexed as ye can be--But I am
a bridegroom, ye see, and that puts a' things out o' my head, I
think. There's the marriage-dinner, or gude part o't, that my
twa brithers are bringing on a sled round by the Riders' Slack,
three goodly bucks as ever ran on Dallomlea, as the sang says;
they couldna come the straight road for the saft grund. I wad
send ye a bit venison, but ye wadna take it weel maybe, for
Killbuck catched it."
During this long speech, in which the good-natured Borderer
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what
was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that
sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of
exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost
arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts
themselves recovered. This is an epoch of _renaissances_, and there
is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its
hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the
stage.
TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent
invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long
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