| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: a bundle, makin' for New York City. I had an idea of
goin' there and makin' lots of money. I always felt like
I could do it. I came to a place one evenin' where the
road forked and I didn't know which fork to take. I
studied about it for half an hour, and then I took the left-
hand. That night I run into the camp of a Wild West
show that was travellin' among the little towns, and
I went West with it. I've often wondered if I
wouldn't have turned out different if I'd took the other
road."
"Oh, I reckon you'd have ended up about the same,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: however, and made rather a graceful than a terrible appearance
when he presented to his general the standard of Argyle, which he
had taken from the standard-bearer with his own hand, and slain
him in single combat. Montrose dearly loved his noble kinsman,
in whom there was conspicuous a flash of the generous, romantic,
disinterested chivalry of the old heroic times, entirely
different from the sordid, calculating, and selfish character,
which the practice of entertaining mercenary troops had
introduced into most parts of Europe, and of which degeneracy
Scotland, which furnished soldiers of fortune for the service of
almost every nation, had been contaminated with a more than usual
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: he answered roughly.
He rose and pushed the chair behind him
and began to walk miserably about the room,
seeming to find it too small for him.
He pulled up a window as if the air were heavy.
Hilda watched him from her corner,
trembling and scarcely breathing, dark shadows
growing about her eyes.
"It . . . it hasn't always made you miserable,
has it?" Her eyelids fell and her lips quivered.
"Always. But it's worse now. It's unbearable.
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