| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;"--
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: This came out with a jump - it was perfectly true - and evidently
gave Morgan pleasure. "I've thought of it a long time," he
presently resumed.
"Well, don't think of it any more."
The boy appeared to comply, and they had a comfortable and even an
amusing hour. They had a theory that they were very thorough, and
yet they seemed always to be in the amusing part of lessons, the
intervals between the dull dark tunnels, where there were waysides
and jolly views. Yet the morning was brought to a violent as end
by Morgan's suddenly leaning his arms on the table, burying his
head in them and bursting into tears: at which Pemberton was the
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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: its absent members in times of peril.
"And," he continued, "when they hear Tarzan call to them,
let them remember what he has done for Akut and come to him
with great speed. Shall it be as Tarzan says?"
"Huh!" assented Akut, and from the members of his tribe
there rose a unanimous "Huh."
Then, presently, they went to feeding again as though
nothing had happened, and with them fed John Clayton,
Lord Greystoke.
He noticed, however, that Akut kept always close to him,
and was often looking at him with a strange wonder in his
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