| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: Then I whispered to Milly that it might be
discreet for us to move a little way from the vicinity.
It was on the second day afterward that I got
a chance to talk to Nan. She reached the grounds
early, before Milly arrived, and I found her in the
grand stand. The Rube was down on the card to
pitch and when he started to warm up Nan said
confidently that he would shut out Hartford that
afternoon.
``I'm sorry, Nan, but you're way off. We'd do
well to win at all, let alone get a shutout.''
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: the war broke out; here that those southern Covenanters slew their
Archbishop Sharp. The persecution on the one hand, the febrile
enthusiasm on the other, are almost equally difficult to understand
in these quiet modern days, and with our easy modern beliefs and
disbeliefs. The Protestants were one and all beside their right
minds with zeal and sorrow. They were all prophets and
prophetesses. Children at the breast would exhort their parents to
good works. 'A child of fifteen months at Quissac spoke from its
mother's arms, agitated and sobbing, distinctly and with a loud
voice.' Marshal Villars has seen a town where all the women
'seemed possessed by the devil,' and had trembling fits, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: what a different sound! "You needn't 'say'--there's nothing to be
said. And yet you ought perhaps to know."
"Certainly I ought. But WHAT--up to now?"
"Why exactly what I told him. That I'd do anything for him."
"What do you mean by 'anything'?"
"Everything."
Mr. Mudge's immediate comment on this statement was to draw from
his pocket a crumpled paper containing the remains of half a pound
of "sundries." These sundries had figured conspicuously in his
prospective sketch of their tour, but it was only at the end of
three days that they had defined themselves unmistakeably as
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