| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: was something brisk and rural in the air; and Challoner paced
forward, his eyes upon the pavement and his mind running upon
distant scenes, till he was recalled, upon a sudden, by a
wall that blocked his further progress. This street, whose
name I have forgotten, is no thoroughfare.
He was not the first who had wandered there that morning; for
as he raised his eyes with an agreeable deliberation, they
alighted on the figure of a girl, in whom he was struck to
recognise the third of the incongruous fugitives. She had
run there, seemingly, blindfold; the wall had checked her
career: and being entirely wearied, she had sunk upon the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: she tossed the boy up and said "a-goos-a-goos-a-ga!" to him meant that she
felt the same. The little girls ran into the paddock like chickens let out
of a coop.
Even Alice, the servant-girl, washing up the dishes in the kitchen, caught
the infection and used the precious tank water in a perfectly reckless
fashion.
"Oh, these men!" said she, and she plunged the teapot into the bowl and
held it under the water even after it had stopped bubbling, as if it too
was a man and drowning was too good for them.
Chapter 1.IV.
"Wait for me, Isa-bel! Kezia, wait for me!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: recollections of him, but no real memory, for it seemed as if none
of them had really known him.
"Queer kinder fellow," said a wrinkled old bayman with whom I walked
up the sandy road, "I seen him a good deal round here, but 'twan't
like havin' any 'quaintance with him. He allus kep' himself to
himself, pooty much. Used ter stay round 'Squire Ladoo's place most
o' the time--keepin' comp'ny with the gal I guess. Larmone? Yaas,
that's what THEY called it, but we don't go much on fancy names down
here. No, the painter didn' 'zactly live there, but it 'mounted to
the same thing. Las' summer they was all away, house shet up,
painter hangin' round all the time, 's if he looked fur 'em to come
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