| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Circling a darkened dome!
RIVERS TO THE SEA
Oh for the measured dawns
That pass with folded wings--
How can I let them go
With unremembered things?
VIII
Florence
The bells ring over the Anno,
Midnight, the long, long chime;
Here in the quivering darkness
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: murky. It was a thin mist, neither damp nor cold. The Lichstorm
Range now appeared only as a blur on the sky. The air was electric
and tingling, and was exciting in its effect. Maskull felt a sort of
emotional inflammation, as though a very slight external cause would
serve to overturn his self-control. Corpang stood silent with a
mouth like iron.
Maskull kept looking toward a high pile of rocks in the vicinity.
"That seems to me a good watchtower. Perhaps we shall see something
from the top."
Without waiting for his companion's opinion, he began to scramble up
the tor, and in a few minutes was standing on the summit. Corpang
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: before reaching Omaha. The road followed the capricious windings
of the southern branch of the Platte River, on its left bank.
At nine the train stopped at the important town of North Platte,
built between the two arms of the river, which rejoin each other
around it and form a single artery a large tributary whose waters
empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha.
The one hundred and first meridian was passed.
Mr. Fogg and his partners had resumed their game; no one--not even the dummy--
complained of the length of the trip. Fix had begun by winning several
guineas, which he seemed likely to lose; but he showed himself a not less
eager whist-player than Mr. Fogg. During the morning, chance distinctly
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