| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "What are we stopping for?" I said. "You can't get a good view
from here to-day. It's too hazy."
"Go on."
"But, Circe- "
"Be quick. I'm awfully cold."
"Won't you come in and get warm before you go on, or borrow
another rug, or- "
"No, thanks awfully, I must get home."
"Mayn't I see you there? I can easily walk back."
"No, thanks awfully, boy-scout."
"You mean it?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: the gold I dug out of Klondike? Why, it's in twenty-dollar gold
pieces, in gold watches, in wedding rings. No matter what
happens to me, the twenty-dollar pieces, the watches, and the
wedding rings remain. Suppose I died right now. It wouldn't
affect the gold one iota. It's sure the same with this present
situation. All I stand for is paper. I've got the paper for
thousands of acres of land. All right. Burn up the paper, and
burn me along with it. The land remains, don't it? The rain
falls on it, the seeds sprout in it, the trees grow out of it,
the houses stand on it, the electric cars run over it. It's
paper that business is run on. I lose my paper, or I lose my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three
hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure
haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the
fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place.
But though the town of Ostend consisted altogether of some score of
houses and three hundred cottages, huts or hovels built of the
driftwood of wrecked vessels, it nevertheless rejoiced in the
possession of a governor, a garrison, a forked gibbet, a convent, and
a burgomaster, in short, in all the institutions of an advanced
civilization.
Who reigned over Brabant and Flanders in those days? On this point
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