| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: to bed in a corner as clean as snow, and there they slept the
night through.
But the next morning, before the dawning of the day, the
travelling companion was stirring again. "Come," said he; "rouse
yourself, for I have a bit of work to do before I leave this
place."
And strange work it was! When they had come outside of the
house, he gathered together a great heap of straw and sticks of
wood, and stuffed all under the corner of the house. Then he
struck a light and set fire to it, and, as the two walked away
through the gray dawn, all was a red blaze behind them.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: Wilson! Speech! Speech!"
People jumped up and crowded around Wilson, wringing his hand and
congratulating fervently--meantime the Chair was hammering with the
gavel and shouting:
"Order, gentlemen! Order! Order! Let me finish reading, please."
When quiet was restored, the reading was resumed--as follows:
"'GO, AND REFORM--OR, MARK MY WORDS--SOME DAY, FOR YOUR SINS YOU
WILL DIE AND GO TO HELL OR HADLEYBURG--TRY AND MAKE IT THE FORMER.'"
A ghastly silence followed. First an angry cloud began to settle
darkly upon the faces of the citizenship; after a pause the cloud
began to rise, and a tickled expression tried to take its place;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: increase of the corn now yielded me so much, that I had of the
barley about twenty bushels, and of the rice as much or more;
insomuch that now I resolved to begin to use it freely; for my
bread had been quite gone a great while; also I resolved to see
what quantity would be sufficient for me a whole year, and to sow
but once a year.
Upon the whole, I found that the forty bushels of barley and rice
were much more than I could consume in a year; so I resolved to sow
just the same quantity every year that I sowed the last, in hopes
that such a quantity would fully provide me with bread, &c.
All the while these things were doing, you may be sure my thoughts
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