| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: Still downward thinking `dead or dead to me!'
Down to the pool and narrow wharf he went,
Seeking a tavern which of old he knew,
A front of timber-crost antiquity,
So propt, worm-eaten, ruinously old,
He thought it must have gone; but he was gone
Who kept it; and his widow, Miriam Lane,
With daily-dwindling profits held the house;
A haunt of brawling seamen once, but now
Stiller, with yet a bed for wandering men.
There Enoch rested silently many days.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: would not require the carriage, and that I preferred to walk.
Besides, it would be well for William and James to attend divine
service. She could not spare James, and thought William had better
clean the harness, by way of penance.
The morning proved to be warm and sunny. I donned a muslin dress
of home manufacture and my own bonnet, and started for church. I
had walked but a few paces when the consciousness of being *free*
and *alone* struck me. I halted, looked about me, and concluded
that I would not go to church, but walk into the fields. I had no
knowledge of the whereabouts of the fields; but I walked straight
forward, and after a while came upon some barren fields, cropping
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "Hallo!" exclaimed Mr. Burns in a startled
voice. "Calm again!"
I addressed him as though he had been sane.
"This is the sort of thing we've been having for
seventeen days, Mr. Burns," I said with intense
bitterness. "A puff, then a calm, and in a mo-
ment, you'll see, she'll be swinging on her heel with
her head away from her course to the devil some-
where."
He caught at the word. "The old dodging
Devil," he screamed piercingly and burst into such
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