| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: The stillness was profound. It was the stillness of the summer
sea at high noon.
The lookout in the crow's nest broke the quiet.
"Hy-yah, hy-yah!" he cried, leaning from the barrel and calling
through an arched palm. "Hy-yah, one two, plenty, many tortle,
topside, wattah; hy-yah, all-same tortle."
"Hello, hello!" cried the Captain, rolling from his hammock.
"Turtle? Where-away?"
"I tink-um 'bout quallah mile, mebbee, four-piecee tortle all-same
weatha bow."
"Turtle, hey? Down y'r wheel, Jim, haul y'r jib to win'ward," he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Wash together!
And be friends forever!''
Then Sister Angela held a long pink checked towel in her hands while
the little tiny girls came as their tiny hands were washed and wiped
them on the pink checked towel.
Then if two little girls took hold of the pink checked towel at once
they both laughed and sang:
``Don't wipe together,
Or we'll fight
Before night.''
And the other little girls that were still washing their hands in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: For some time their progress inland was extremely slow.
Word came to them from time to time through natives passing
from the coast on hunting excursions that Rokoff had not
yet guessed the direction of their flight. This, and the desire
to make the journey as light as possible for the gently bred
woman, kept Anderssen to a slow advance of short and easy
marches with many rests.
The Swede insisted upon carrying the child while they
travelled, and in countless other ways did what he could to
help Jane Clayton conserve her strength. He had been terribly
chagrined on discovering the mistake he had made in the
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